Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu called on Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari at New Delhi today and apprised him of massive damages caused by flash floods in the state and sought support for repair and reconstruction of damaged roads. He also urged for including few roads in PM Gati Shakti Yojana.
Sh. Sukhu also updated the Union Minister about the delays in National Highway projects due to various reasons and requested to address the delays at the earliest and to start construction works on the same. Chief Minister also stressed upon adopting tunneling in the NH road projects and discussed about the roads of strategic importance which have been already raised with defence ministry and urged for speedy action on them.
He also urged for sanctioning more Ropeway projects for the state to ease traffic congestion. Union Minister assured of all possible assistance to the state and gave necessary directions to the officers.
MLA Sunder Singh Thakur, Chief Secretary Prabodh Saxena, Secretary PWD Abhishek Jain, Principal Resident Commissioner Sushil Kumar Singla and officers of NHAI and the ministry were present.