Punjab drives ahead with new $27m road repair plan

The Punjab state government has approved a new national highway repair and maintenance budget of US $27 million (Rs 150 crore). Public works minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon said that the decision was taken at a “high-level” emergency meeting held earlier this month to review the way in which the Indian state is running it ongoing road construction and maintenance programme.
September 3, 2012 Read time: 1 min
The Punjab state government has approved a new national highway repair and maintenance budget of US $27 million (Rs 150 crore). Public works minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon said that the decision was taken at a “high-level” emergency meeting held earlier this month to review the way in which the Indian state is running it ongoing road construction and maintenance programme.

According to Dhillon, his department is calling for all work to properly monitored, and it has asked all of the contractors involved to work within clearly stipulated timeframes. The minister also announced that the construction plan for new roads in Shambhu-Jalandhar, Pathankot-Amrtisar, Ludhiana-Talwandi Bhai and Bhogpur-Mukerian was now “in full swing,” adding that these highways would become operational by the end of March 2014.

Construction work on four to six new lanes for the Zirakpur-Patiala, Patiala-Bathinda national highway is now also scheduled to start in September 2012, while the construction of four to six new lanes on the Sri Amritsar-Sri Ganga Nagar and Jalandhar-Jind route will start in October 2013.

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