Itanagar, May 26 (). An ambitious 1,748 km long Frontier Highway will be constructed to connect West Kameng district in western Arunachal Pradesh with Changlang district in the state’s eastern region bordering China, Myanmar and Bhutan.
The 1,811-km-long Trans Arunachal Highway is nearing completion and the focus is now on the Frontier Highway and Inter-connectivity corridor projects, which were recently approved by the Centre, a top engineer of the Highways (PWD) department of the Arunachal Pradesh government said on Thursday. They went.
He said the Frontier Highway is proposed to start from Bomdila in West Kameng (bordering China and Bhutan) and end at Vijaynagar in Changlang (bordering Myanmar), covering a distance of 1,748 km.
The highway will be constructed by the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MRTH) and the Border Roads Organization besides state PWDs.
MRTH has identified six inter-connectivity corridors to connect National Highway-15 to Trans Arunachal Highway (NH-13) and the proposed Frontier Highway (NH-913) in Assam.
Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday made a detailed review of the status of road projects being executed by the State Highways, Public Works, Rural Works and Urban Development Departments.
Emphasizing on quality and timely completion of all under-construction road projects, Khandu urged engineers, especially chief engineers of all zones and divisions, to examine the practice of compiling Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) with detailed budget estimates Did.
He pointed out that most of the DPRs prepared by the departmental engineers are always higher than the actual cost of the project.
SGK
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