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Highway length rose by 3,000 kms in Andhra since 2014: Gadkari
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SME Times News Bureau | 16 Jul, 2018
The length of national highways have increased by almost 3,000 km in
Andhra Pradesh since the BJP government came to power in the Centre,
said Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday.
The
length of national highways in the state before May 2014 was 4,193 km
which has now increased to 7,118 km and that the government was planning
to spend a further Rs one lakh crore for development of highways in
Andhra Pradesh, he said, after laying the foundation stones for several
projects in the state and also inaugurating some national highway and
port connectivity projects in Vishakhapatnam, according to an official
statement.
"Since 2014, 15 projects having a length of 902 kms
amounting to Rs 5,309 crore have been completed. Further, 37 projects
are ongoing with a total length of 1,643 kms with total project cost of
Rs 15,700 crore. Another 97 works of total project cost of Rs 27,436
crore have been awarded," he said.
Gadkari added that fishery was
also very important for the state of Andhra Pradesh and gave assurance
that the government would focus on developing fishing harbours and fish
processing and packaging centres in the state.
He said that 108
projects worth more than 1.35 lakh lakh crore under the government's
flagship Sagarmala project were under various stages of implementation
in the state.
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