Badal wants NH-71 from Bawal to Jalandhar 4-laned

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has urged Union Minister of Road and Highways Kamal Nath to develop the entire length of NH-71 from Jalandhar to Bawal via Moga-Barnala-Sangrur-Jind as four-lane corridor on a priority basis. In a letter to the Union Minister, the Chief Minister assured him of full support and co-operation on behalf of the state government. The Chief Minister also thanked Mr Nath for taking up the four-laning of Zirakpur-Patiala-Sangrur-Barnala-Bathinda section of NH-64 in Punjab on Design, Build, Finance, Operation and Transfer (DBFOT) pattern. This endeavor of the Centre would immensely benefit the agriculturally and industrially important districts of Patiala, Sangrur and Bathinda in Punjab. Mr Badal further mentioned that industrial towns of Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Ambala and Panipat were connected with Delhi and rest of the country by four lane section of NH-1, which was now being widened to six lane under National Highways Development Project (NHDP) program. This section of NH-1, being the only major connectivity corridor for the state of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir with rest of country, had already exceeded its capacity and with the ever increasing demand of traffic, six-laning would not provide any long term solution. As such, Government would have to look for the development of alternative routes for the hassle-free movement of traffic and keep the overwhelming pace of industrial development/activity being witnessed by the country in general and North Indian states in particular.

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