Saturday, 14 August 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has directed the Public Works Department (PWD) to undertake a campaign to make the roads of the state free from pot holes. The CM took a meeting of the officials of PWD, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) and Border Roads Organisation (BRO) at the state secretariat on Friday.
In the meeting, the CM said that the work to make the roads of the state free from potholes should start from September 15 after end of monsoon period. He cautioned that special emphasis on quality should be made. He said that proper plan should be prepared for the areas where the works of smart city and PWD are going on side by side. The CM said that a rope way division should be set up in the PWD for giving an impetus to the ropeway connectivity and directed the secretaries of smart city project and PWD to convene a meeting for it.
He said that the union government is giving full support to Uttarakhand in increasing road connectivity. He said that the proposal for roads, bridges, ropeways and tunnels on NH should be made.
The CM said that the works on the Dehradun and Haldwani ring roads should be expedited and the Jaspur bypass and Bhawali bypass should get completed till September this year.
The chief secretary (CS), Sukhbir Singh Sandhu said that the drone surveys of all road projects should be done and a platform for information dissemination about damaged roads should be developed.
The meeting was also attended by additional chief secretary Anand Bardhan, Principal Secretary R K Sudhanshu, special secretary to CM, Parag Madhukar Dhakate, engineer in chief of PWD, Hariom Sharma and others.
