Wednesday, 30 September 2020 | PNS | Dehradun
Fifty per cent of the amount to be spent on construction of the railway road over bridges and road under bridges at identified railway crossings in Uttarakhand will now be facilitated from the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) instead of being borne by the state government. Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat thanked the Union Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari for this development. He said that now the state government will be able to use the large sum it would have spent on ROBs and RUBs on other developmental works in the state instead. In the past Rawat had written to Gadkari, requesting that the 50 per cent of the cost to be borne by the state government be paid from the CRIF. Rawat said that a number of accidents occur at the railway crossings apart from regular traffic jams due to traffic pressure, causing major inconvenience to the public. To resolve these problems, nine level crossings with more than one lakh TVU have been identified in the state. With the ministry accepting the CM’s request, 50 per cent of the cost of constructing the nine ROBs-RUBs will be borne by the railways while the remaining 50 per cent which would have been borne by the state earlier will now be paid from the CRIF. These are to be constructed in the Dehradun and Haridwar districts.
