Friday, August 11, 2006

Highway authority lines up Rs 6495 cr for Bihar roads


The National Highway Development Authority proposes to four-lane 890 km of highway in Bihar at a cost of Rs 6,495 crore on either a build-operate-transfer (BOT) or annuity basis.

This was communicated to a delegation of MPs and central ministers from Bihar who met T R Baalu, Union minister for shipping and road transport, here on Thursday.

The leaders from Bihar were told that of 206 km of the Golden Quadrilateral project falling in Bihar, 190 km was completed on July 31 this year.

The remaining 16 km is expected to be completed by the year-end.

It was also brought out that four contract packages have already been awarded for the stretches of the 160 km of East-West Corridor. The total cost of this project would be Rs 1,251 crore.

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