Union minister Nitin Gadkari gives Rs.1300 crores of road projects to Pauri Garhwal parliamentary constituency at the behest of its MP Tirath Singh Rawat

The union national highways and transport minister Nitin Gadkari has the other day in an official event at Haridwar inaugurated massive networks of roads in Uttarakhand involving the budget of Rs. 4750 crores. The union minister was kind enough in sanctioning roads in Pauri Garhwal constituency worth Rs 1300 crores sending a positive message among the Pauri Garhwal electorates. The minister formally inaugurated these road projects in Pauri Garhwal constituency led by the former Uttarakhand chief minister and present MP Tirath Singh Rawat. Among these road projects, the foundation stone of two important works under the important National Highway No. 534 of Pauri, Tirath’s home district, was also laid with a cost of Rs 1145 crore. With this, the connectivity of Garhwal district with Delhi and Kumaon will become easier. This is major achievement of the sitting MP of Pauri Garhwal Tirath Singh Rawat who is a first term MP from here and has notably carried out various other developmental projects in his constituency to ameliorate the grievances of the electorates.

Actually, Kotdwar is like a bottleneck on Pauri-Meerut National Highway. Due to dense settlement and heavy traffic pressure from Kaudiya to Siddhabali Dham, passengers traveling from Garhwal to Uttar Pradesh and Kumaon have to face a lot of trouble.

Finding a solution to this, the National Highway Authority of India made a proposal to build a bypass of about 6 km long from the Uttar Pradesh end of Kauria to Siddhabali Temple. Rs 692 crores have been earmarked for this project.

In addition to this, union highways minister Nitin Gadkari has cleared Satpuli Gumkhal section for which Rs. 453 have been sanctioned and project inaugurated. The Satpuli-Gumkhal section of the Pauri-Kotdwar road during the British period has always been popular.

Completing this 21 km journey filled with innumerable blind turns and ups and downs has been a test not only for the drivers but also for the passengers.

Countless road accidents have occurred on this risky route in the past. Although in the last few years, there has been a decrease in road accidents after the road became one and a half lane, but before this, horrific stories of many horrific road accidents that took place in Kulhad Band, Malli Satpuli are still heard.

Even dozens of soldiers became victims of untimely death when an army vehicle fell into a ditch. Dozens of teachers left this world in an accident. But now NHAI has prepared an estimate of work with the help of Rs 453 crore to prepare this 21 km long section for safe travel, after approval of which the foundation stone was laid by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari in Haridwar on Tuesday.