Roads on paper or real roads, Nagaland gets 1,250 Cr. highway pack

EMN
Dimapur, August 14

Nagaland continues to hunger for civilized and maintained roads that are not only roads by sight but roads by utility.
Perhaps they can have a tone of comfort in this report: the state has been handed approximately 189 kilometers of roads to be developed at the estimated cost of at least Rs. 1, 200 crore this year.
The state’s 4-package road development project is among the lowest among the north eastern states’ quota–which the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) is undertaking. Nonetheless, citizens can take comfort that there is at least some semblance of activity to comfort them that they would at least see a facility for surface connectivity.
NHIDCL, a fully-owned company of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, awarded 18 projects during the previous fiscal year to build 600 kilometers of roads in Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. The project, then, was estimated at about Rs 8,500 crore.
The NHIDCL is a fully owned company of the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India.
The company promotes and surveys, establishes, designs, builds, operates, maintains and upgrades National Highways and Strategic Roads including interconnecting roads in parts of the country which share international boundaries with neighboring countries.
On Thursday, August 14, the ministry of Road Transport & Highways stated that the NHIDCL was mandated to take up projects covering 4, 365 kilometers of highways including bridges.
The cost of the project was placed approximately at Rs. 35,000.00 crore, Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, Pon.Radhakrishnan said in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, August 13.