Team Herald
PANJIM: Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar have asked MLAs to conduct awareness drives on the re-alignment on the National Highway 17 and National Highway 4A.
The Public Works Department had organised a mega presentation at the State secretariat on Saturday wherein the MLAs were asked for their active participation in the alignment.
The issue of realignment has dogged the PWD for nearly eight years now wherein the proposed alignments were scrapped twice due to public protests.
The chief minister said that in the re-alignment of the two highways around 100 houses would be rehabilitated. “More than 10 flyovers will come up in the two highway widening projects which will require around 100 houses to be rehabilitated. We have asked all the concerned MLAs to launch an awareness campaign on the re-alignments,” Parsekar said.
Besides, Parrikar and Parsekar several MLAs, whose constituencies the highways pass through, attended the presentation.
The Union Ministry for Road Transport and Highways has cleared projects worth around Rs 10,000 cr, which include widening of the two national highways besides the three bridges of Zuari, Talpona and Galgibaga.
