Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik shoots off letter to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari for early completion of NH 55

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has shot off a letter to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari searching for his intervention for early completion of Cuttack-Angul-Sambalpur NH 55 four-laning work.

Drawing his consideration to the truth that rehabilitation and upgradation of the 265-km Cuttack-Sambalpur part of NH 55 to four-lane carriageway is being carried out by NHAI since 2017, he stated it’s a matter of nice concern that the enlargement work is but to be accomplished even after greater than 5 years.

“The NH 55 serves as lifeline to millions of people of western Odisha. Haphazard construction activities and miserable plight of the road causes frequent accidents leading to loss of human lives. As many as 399 accidents have taken place causing 196 fatalities during last two years. There is public agitation and discontentment among people for inordinate delay in completion of the road work,” Naveen identified.

The Chief Minister stated the considerations of the state authorities on this depend have been communicated to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways earlier and regardless of common evaluate of the progress of the challenge with the regional authorities of NHAI, no passable final result is seen.

He urged Gadkari to intervene within the matter for early completion of the challenge, which is able to go a good distance in redressing the pending demand of individuals of the state.

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One of essentially the most vital highways of Odisha, the NH 55 has lengthy been an important hyperlink between coastal, central and western areas of the state. Completed, the freeway would join industrial corridors with ports by offering an uninterrupted connectivity and accelerating motion of mining and industrial site visitors.

Started in three phases between March 2017 and March 2018 at a price of Rs 2,367 crore, the challenge is incomplete attributable to delay in completion of bridges, car underpasses (VUPs) and animal underpasses (AUPs). The challenge estimate has virtually doubled at Rs 4,482 crore after 5 years however solely about 60 per cent work has been accomplished to date.

On March 6, The New Indian Express had printed an in depth report titled ‘From Cuttack to Sambalpur, the never-ending NH 55 ache’ highlighting the components behind inordinate delay in completion of the freeway enlargement work. Two senior NHAI officers, together with a challenge director (technical), had been suspended over irregularities and tardy progress of the development work.

The challenge taken up on engineering, procurement and building (EPC) mode was delayed as the development company Hyderabad-based Gayatri Projects Ltd went right into a extreme monetary disaster a yr after it bagged the contracts.

As per the contracts, six main bridges, 59 minor bridges, three flyovers, 10 VUPs, 19 AUPs, 653 culverts and two street over bridges had been proposed to be constructed.

However, just one main bridge has been accomplished together with 30 minor bridges, 505 culverts and 4 VUPs in final 5 years. None of the flyovers and AUPs has been constructed but.

Twelve AUPs will likely be inbuilt a two-km elephant hall between Angul and Sambalpur and the remaining seven between Cuttack and Angul. Three main bridges between Cuttack and Angul part and two bridges between Angul and Sambalpur part are below progress.

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has shot off a letter to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari searching for his intervention for early completion of Cuttack-Angul-Sambalpur NH 55 four-laning work.

Drawing his consideration to the truth that rehabilitation and upgradation of the 265-km Cuttack-Sambalpur part of NH 55 to four-lane carriageway is being carried out by NHAI since 2017, he stated it’s a matter of nice concern that the enlargement work is but to be accomplished even after greater than 5 years.

“The NH 55 serves as lifeline to millions of people of western Odisha. Haphazard construction activities and miserable plight of the road causes frequent accidents leading to loss of human lives. As many as 399 accidents have taken place causing 196 fatalities during last two years. There is public agitation and discontentment among people for inordinate delay in completion of the road work,” Naveen identified.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The Chief Minister stated the considerations of the state authorities on this depend have been communicated to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways earlier and regardless of common evaluate of the progress of the challenge with the regional authorities of NHAI, no passable final result is seen.

He urged Gadkari to intervene within the matter for early completion of the challenge, which is able to go a good distance in redressing the pending demand of individuals of the state.

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One of essentially the most vital highways of Odisha, the NH 55 has lengthy been an important hyperlink between coastal, central and western areas of the state. Completed, the freeway would join industrial corridors with ports by offering an uninterrupted connectivity and accelerating motion of mining and industrial site visitors.

Started in three phases between March 2017 and March 2018 at a price of Rs 2,367 crore, the challenge is incomplete attributable to delay in completion of bridges, car underpasses (VUPs) and animal underpasses (AUPs). The challenge estimate has virtually doubled at Rs 4,482 crore after 5 years however solely about 60 per cent work has been accomplished to date.

On March 6, The New Indian Express had printed an in depth report titled ‘From Cuttack to Sambalpur, the never-ending NH 55 ache’ highlighting the components behind inordinate delay in completion of the freeway enlargement work. Two senior NHAI officers, together with a challenge director (technical), had been suspended over irregularities and tardy progress of the development work.

The challenge taken up on engineering, procurement and building (EPC) mode was delayed as the development company Hyderabad-based Gayatri Projects Ltd went right into a extreme monetary disaster a yr after it bagged the contracts.

As per the contracts, six main bridges, 59 minor bridges, three flyovers, 10 VUPs, 19 AUPs, 653 culverts and two street over bridges had been proposed to be constructed.

However, just one main bridge has been accomplished together with 30 minor bridges, 505 culverts and 4 VUPs in final 5 years. None of the flyovers and AUPs has been constructed but.

Twelve AUPs will likely be inbuilt a two-km elephant hall between Angul and Sambalpur and the remaining seven between Cuttack and Angul. Three main bridges between Cuttack and Angul part and two bridges between Angul and Sambalpur part are below progress.