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GUWAHATI: Throwing more light on a number of under-construction national highways and bridges, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the Boothnath-Machkhowa stretch of the Guwahati-North Guwahati bridge over the Brahmaputra will be dedicated to the public by March next.
Around 78 percent of the work on the Rs 2,608 crore Guwahati-North Guwahati bridge is over.
Speaking to the media today, the Chief Minister said, "While vehicles from Jalukbari will follow the peripheral road of the Brahmaputra from Bhoothnath and connect to the mainroad at Machkhowa, the vehicles from Fancy Bazar to Jalukbari will follow the existing MG Road. This one-plan will help decongest the traffic snarl at Bharalumukh Point."
The Chief Minister said, "Come what may, we will complete the work of the Jorhat-Dibrugarh stretch of the National Highway-37 by June next. Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has a plan in the pipeline to make the highway from Srirampur to Ledo a cemented road. He has asked me to discuss the prices of cement with the Assam-based cement companies."
The Chief Minister further said, "The Kaliabor-Gohpur new highway will be complete by December. The four-lane national highway from Baihata Chariali to Tezpur will have five bypasses and as many flyovers. The completion of the works on these two national highways will smooth the traffic flow in the North Bank."
On the Rs 5,800 crore 121-km ring road, the Chief Minister said, "It will be of four lanes. Starting from Sonapur on the existing national highway up to Baihata Chariali, the road will have around 55 km of new construction from Baihata Chariali to Sonapur via a new bridge over the Brahmaputra near Kurua. This new road will absorb most of the vehicles from outside Assam and help decongest the vehicular traffic in Guwahati."
On the four-lane elevated corridor over Kaziranga National Park, the Chief Minister said, "We will have to use new technology to ensure minimal disturbance to the movement of animals in the national park. This corridor will also have three tunnels for vehicular traffic to let wildlife move above the tunnels."
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