Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stones of nine National Highway projects with a total length of nearly 262 kilometres, and worth over Rs. 2752 Crores in Tripura on Tuesday.
The event was presided-over by Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, in the presence of Union MoSs Dr Jitendra Singh and Gen (Retd) Dr V K Singh, Ministers from the State, Members of Parliaments, MLAs and senior officers from the Center and the State.
Speaking on the occasion the Chief Minister said, “These highway projects shall contribute towards strengthening Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodiji’s #HIRA model for #TransformingTripura.
The Projects, on completion, will provide faster and hassle-free inter-state and international connectivity to Bangladesh, and will be a major stride towards strengthening tourism sector of the State. The new projects will provide better connectivity, fast and safe movement of traffic to various tourist places, historical places and religious places in the entire State. They are likely to generate large number of employment and self-employment opportunities to the unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled manpower of the region. The projects will reduce travel time and maintenance cost of the vehicles and saving of fuel.
Implementation of the national highway project would result in enhanced socio-economic conditions of the locality. These will improve transport of agricultural goods and access to greater markets, thereby reducing the cost of goods and services. These will also create easy and speedy access to health care and emergency services. In a nut shell, after completion of the above projects there will be quantum jump in the development of tourism, economic and international connectivity of this region. Finally, it will give impetus to the GDP of the state of Tripura.
