VISHVENDU JAIPURIAR
Hazaribag, Feb 16: NHAI officials during a meeting with Deputy Commissioner Nancy Sahay on Thursday said that Rs 238.88 crores will be required to correct structural and technical faults at Danua Ghati on GT road in Chouparan which has turned into an accident-prone zone.
The officials said this at a meeting with DC Sahay to discuss the structural and technical faults at the Danua Ghati.
NHAI officials said that they need 69.75 hectares of land to remove the sharp bends and other faults at the ghati. They said out of 69.75 hectares, 4.2 hectares is raiyats and the rest is forest land. They further said that the project to correct Danua Ghati will cost around Rs 238.88 crores. According to them, this fund will be used to compensate villagers to acquire lands, safety measures, civil facilities, ambulance and other medical facilities, street lights, underpasses, foot overbridges, pathways and others.
Sahay asked NHAI and other departments like electricity, drinking water and sanitation and forest to work in coordination and to go for a joint survey of the ghati area and to make the final detailed project report which will be sent to the Transport Ministry, the Government of India for their approval.
