Dehradun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami is on a visit to Delhi. During this, on Thursday, May 8, CM Dhami met Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and Union Forest and Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav. During the meeting with both the ministers, CM Dhami discussed some major schemes of the state.
CM Dhami has requested Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to make the roads bearable in view of the increasing number of devotees on Uttarakhand Chardham Yatra. He has said that it is very important to increase the traffic capacity of all the roads. The number of devotees is continuously increasing in the state.
Not only this, Chief Minister Dhami also requested Nitin Gadkari to approve the Rishikesh bypass project, besides approving the 33 km long road from Biharigarh to Roshnabad as a national highway. Along with this, CM Dhami also requested to approve the proposed elevated road on Bindal and Rispana rivers as a loop of NH-7 to solve the problem of traffic jam in Dehradun city.
These proposals were also discussed
Along with the construction of a ring road in Khatima, after re-alignment of NH-109 affected by the expansion of Pantnagar Airport, he also requested to approve the revised cost of ₹ 371.84 crore for the construction of the proposed bypass road and to provide additional assistance of ₹ 110 crore for the proposed metro corridor on NH-07.
Along with this, CM Dhami requested Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav to give early approval for the transfer of 47.547 hectares of forest land and revenue land (barren land) required for the construction of the proposed 72 MW capacity Tyuni-Plasu Hydroelectric Project on Tons.
