Dilip-da,
It seems the compensation is being provided. What is the joke in it?
:)
Umesh
Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has this project received Ravindranath's approval? :-)I saw some alarming words in the news report that I have highlighted. ;-)NHAI all set to change face of NE_______________________________________________
GUWAHATI, May 1 (UNI): A mini India has assembled on the side of the National Highway starting from Srirampur to Silchar, in a stretch of over 700 km, as the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has commenced the biggest ever protect of the North-east promising to change its face forever.
The NHAI is constructing the East West corridor linking the communication starved North-east India with Porbandar in Gujarat with a four lane highway where average speed of all vehicles would be more than 100 kilometre per hour.
The project is marching ahead despite teething problems as more than 4,000 engineers, skilled and unskilled labourers and suppliers have assembled from all across the country determined to change the transportation forever. The total project cost is a tightly guarded secret but it should be more than Rs 12,000 crore.
The work has started in almost all the packages stretching from Srirampur to Silchar and it is expected to go full steam from October, once the monsoon is over with the completion target set on 2009.
Srirampur-Pathsala stretch project director Mr Raj Chakravarty of NHAI, informed the UNI that despite hiccups in logistical and nature front, this massive project has taken off.
You can see the mobilization and documentation work of the project throughout the stretch as very heavy mobilization has started, he said. Under the project, the existing two lanes would be converted to four with modern technology, specially considering the long monsoon spell which generally damage the road building technology.
The total Silchar to Porbandar stretch of the project is 3,465 km of which around 731 km will be in Asom, which is scheduled to be completed by 2008 but actually it would be around 2009. The four-lane highway will go from Srirampur to Silchar via Rakhaldubi, Baihata Chariali, Guwahati Bypass, Nagaon, Doboka, Lumding, and Maibong through National 31,37,36 and 54.
The project, which has been billed as the biggest of independent India, involves huge land acquisition, besides requirement of shifting of utilities by different government and semi-government agencies.
According to Chakravarty, the project, once completed, would usher a sea change to the regions economy as greater mobility would ensure faster development.
Already compensation process has started and the land owner near the National Highway are being given direct cheques as compensation as well as to avoid misunderstanding.
Further compensation for deforestation near the highway as well as afforestation due to felling of trees has also started. He also informed that throughout the stretch there would be an extra set of bridges, which will run parallel to the existing bridges. The NHAI will maintain the existing the road till the completion of project. Once the new lane would be completed, then the existing lane would be strengthened.
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