Update on Ranchi-Vijaywada highway
PMGSY, Vijaywada-Ranchi highway June 30th. 2007, 12:01amNew Indian Express reports on a response given in the assembly regrading the status of the Ranch-Vijaywada highway. Following are some excerpts:
Work on the Orissa part of the Visakhapatnam-Ranchi Highway would be started after the detailed project report (DPR) is cleared by the Centre, Works Minister AU Singhdeo informed the Assembly on Friday. … the Minister said that 1,219 km of the highway would pass through Orissa. The road would connect Motu, Malkangiri, Koraput, Aska, Boudh, Keonjhar and Tiring. Singhdeo said that 237 km of the road will be national highway, 106 km would be under the Prime Minister’s Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and 215 km would be constructed with World Bank funding adding DPR is being prepared for 610 km. … the Minister said that 167 km of the road would pass through Malkangiri, 138 km through Koraput and 127 km through Rayagada districts respectively. It would pass through tribal and backward districts in which the Naxalites have spread their base. Tenders have been floated for 64.3 km long Malkangiri-Jeypore road. Besides, work has already been started for 80 km-long Phulbani-Bhanjanagar road with Rs 20 crore estimate. SMEC International Private Limited has been entrusted the survey work for by-pass to Koraput town.
Telegraph describes the route as follows:
Vijayawada- Kodar- Khammam- Motu- Malkangiri- Jeypore- Koraput- Rayagada- Digapahandi- Aska- Phulbani- Boudhi- Deogarh- Keonjhar- Tiring- Hata- Chaibasa- Chakradharpur- Khunti- Ranchi.
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July 7th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
This would be more significant if the route will directly from Phulbani to Rayagada via Muniguda and i suppose it will be less distance as compare to the proposed route and more people will be benefitted by this route and it will be more appreciable if the route enrouted through jamshedpur
July 17th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
I fully agree with Mr. Panigrahi because it will not only be shorter but it will connect another important tribal area town, Muniguda. Unfortunately, we work in the Buddha system. I call it so because Buddhadev tried to sit in seclusion to find the reason of misery in the world. With no inputs from the affected. That is what our Govt. departments and administration, steeped with contempt for ordinary people, tend to do. Their real inspiration is British colonial administration. The consultative process is absent, or present only in paper.