President to inaugurate two road projects and lay the foundation stones for two new ones
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GUWAHATI: NHIDCL (National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd) is behind schedule in constructing a few national highway project packages in Assam. It has, however, completed two projects. It will lay the foundation stones for two other projects in the state. Completion of these two projects will ease communication bottlenecks in the Northeast to an extent.
President of India Draupadi Murmu will virtually inaugurate the two completed projects and lay the foundation stones of the two new projects on October 14, 2022, from Guwahati. On her maiden visit to Assam after assuming office in Rashtrapati Bhawan, she will arrive in Guwahati on October 13.
According to NHIDCL sources, one of the two completed projects is the 10.08-km development, upgrading and four-laning of NH-52A from Gohpur-Holongi near the Aruanchal Pradesh border. This Rs 223.30-crore project is part of the package of four-laning of the Nagaon-Holongi National Highway project. It will improve connectivity to economically and strategically important Itanagar.
The other 4.15-km completed project costing Rs 76.78 crore is two-laning with paved shoulders of NH-53 from Silchar to Badarpur.
One of the two new projects, according to the NHIDCL, is – widening and improving with paved shoulders to four-lane from Lepetkata-Kandulibari Grant Gaon on the existing Lahoal-Chabua Bypass in the Dibrugarh district. The cost of this 24.600-km project is Rs 215.27 crore.
The other new project is – widening and improving with paved shoulders to the four-lane national highway from Kandulibari Grant Gaon to Nalanihulla in the Dibrugarh district. The cost of the 19.730-km road project is Rs 170.95 crore. After completion, the two projects will boost the connectivity of upper Assam with Western Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar.
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