Telangana Hyderabad - Officials review progress on road proposals in LWE-affected areas
On Wednesday, 112 road projects were examined, 51 under the prime minister Gramme Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and 61 under the Road Connectivity Programme for Left Wing Extremist Areas (RCPLWEA) Phases I, II, and III. At a coordination meeting called by the principal secretary to the government, A vani Prasad of the EFS&T (Environment, Forests, Science and Technology) department met with representatives from panchayat Raj, TR&B (Telangana Roads & Buildings), and the Forest department to discuss the proposals and the projects' viability in light of recent changes to forest regulations.
The obstacles in the way of declaring the southern portion of the 182 km Regional Ring Road (RRR)—Chautuppal-Amangal-Shadnagar-Sangareddy—have been eliminated. chief minister A revanth reddy asked Union minister for Road Transport and National Highways nitin gadkari to elevate RRR's southern portion to a national highway in light of the recent declaration that the northern portion is now a national highway. The Union minister gave the National Highway Authority of india (NHAI) officials instructions to draft plans to designate the southern portion of rrr as a national highway shortly after the meeting.
In addition to the rrr problem, revanth reddy pleaded with nitin gadkari to approve the extension of national roads in telangana as well as the conversion of a number of significant state highways to national highways. The Union minister received the list of state roads that need be designated as national highways from the chief minister, who also stressed the significance of doing so.