Haryana and IVRCL for Rai Malikpur-Kharak corridor

by Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, NOV 30

The Haryana Government today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)   with M/s IVRCL Assets and Holding Limited  for Development of Rs. 1605 crore Rai Malikpur (Rajasthan border)–Narnaul–Mahendergarh–Dadri–Bhiwani–Kharak corridor in the State. The corridor would be 151 km long and is likely to be completed within two and a half years which would give a major fillip to the interstate North-South connectivity between the States.

          Chief Engineer, Roads Mr. S.K. Manocha on behalf of Public Works Department (Building and Roads) department and Mr. R.K. Singh on behalf of M/s IVRCL Assets and Holding Limited signed MoU in the presence of Haryana Chief Secretary Mr. P.K. Chaudhery, Additional Chief Secretary PWD (B&R), Mr S. C. Chaudary and Engineer in Chief Mr. Mahesh Kumar here today. The corridor would be developed on Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) basis.

          Speaking on the occasion, Chief Secretary Mr. P.K. Chaudhery said that Chief Minister Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda had been monitoring this project and as a result of his efforts, the project reached at this stage in a minimum possible time. He said that this Corridor would serve as a major interstate North-South connectivity between the States like Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra to northern states such as Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir besides Haryana. This road was also of immense importance because of the presence of stone quarries in its vicinity. Trucks carrying stone aggregates and boulders ply on this road to supply construction materials to different sites in Mahendragarh, Rohtak and other districts.

While detailing the project, Additional Chief Secretary, PWD (B&R) Mr. S.C Chaudhary said that the project involves widening from two lane to four lane divided carriageway starting from Rajasthan Border to Nangal Choudhary -Narnaul- Mahendragarh-Dadri-Bhiwani upto Kharak. The project highway includes four new four-lane bypasses of Nangal Choudhary having 4.305 km, Narnaul 8.0 km, Nangal Shirohi 3.475 km and Bhiwani 8.9 km. He said that the project also includes construction of two new four lanned Railway over Bridges (ROBs) one each on Narnaul Bypass and Bhiwani Bypass. Apart from this, one additional two lane ROB would be constructed at Mahendragarh.

Mr. Chaudhary said that the project also includes construction of 12 minor bridges and 154 culverts. Besides, 62 bus lay byes, six truck lay byes and 5 Km. length of service roads would be provided to facilitate traffic.  The proposals of construction of ROBs had also been approved by Railways.  He said that it was expected that Government would earn revenue of Rs 485 crore from the Premium to be paid by the Concessionaire upto the end of concession period.

          The Additional Chief Secretary said that department would also undertake a number of highway projects in the PPP mode in the coming months and would upgrade them from two laning to four laning . These projects included 51 km. Yamuna Nagar-Ladwa-Karnal including Ladwa bypass at a cost of Rs. 491 crore, 12 km long Meerut-Sonepat upto Bahalgarh Chowk at a cost of Rs. 75 crore, 16 km Palwal-Jewar-Aligarh at a cost of Rs. 103 crore, 19 km Panipat- Sanoli at a cost of Rs. 111 crore, 14.67 km Karnal (NH-1) to Meerut at a cost of Rs. 95 crore and 38 km Kond-Munak-Salwan- Assand at a cost of Rs. 205 crore.