Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu stated on Thursday stated that the state government will quickly take up the building of the proposed 2-lane East-West Industrial Corridor Highway project with the central government. This was informed by the CM in reply to a query raised in the assembly by Congress MLA Wanglin Lowangdong. According to a PTI report. The proposed highway project, which is anticipated to serve as an industrial corridor for Arunachal Pradesh, will be constructed along the foothills of the state from Bhairabkunda in the district of West Kameng, at the tri-junction of Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam to Ruksin, positioned in the district of East Siang.
As the project envisages the transformation of a vast location of Arunachal Pradesh to enhance its industrial and financial improvement, the project is incredibly essential for the bigger interest of the state, the CM stated. Since the state of Arunachal Pradesh is so vast, individuals have to travel from east to west by way of Assam. Once the corridor is constructed, individuals will not have to go by way of roads in the state of Assam, Khandu stated.
The CM additional stated that Union Minister Nitin Gadkari through his pay a visit to to Itanagar in the year 2015 had agreed “in principle” to fund the infra project as a state highway, supplied the state government of Arunachal Pradesh completed pre-building activities like forest clearance, land acquisition as nicely as techno-financial feasibility study along with the DPR. For land compensation, forest clearance and utility shifting, the Union Ministry will not provide any fund, consequently, the duty of the state government is to finish the pre-building activities with encumbrance totally free Right of Way for the sanction of the 2-lane East-West Industrial Corridor Highway project, he stated.
The highway project, which would pass by way of nine districts of Arunachal Pradesh, will have 966.78 km length in total, such as 274.20 km length of the current NH common road from Pasighat in the district of East Siang to Manmao in the district of Changlang. The remaining 692.58 km length is proposed to be created in two phases. The 545.45 km lengthy phase-1 begins from Pasighat and ends at Bhairabkund, though 147.13 km phase-2 begins from Kanubari in Longding district and ends at Tirap Gate in the district of Manmao, the CM stated. At present, the whole length of phase-1 is in the DPR stage and survey as nicely as investigation work of phase-2 is in progress, the chief minister stated.
Under phase-1, the road stretch has been divided into 4 sub packages- 308.45 km of package 1 from Pasighat to Naharlagun, 101.70 km of package 2 (A) from Naharlagun to Seijosa in the district of Pakke Kessang, 39.84 km of package 2 (B) from Seijosa to Bhalukpong and 95.46 km of package 2 (C) from Bhalukpong to Bhairabkund.
According to Khandu, the DPRs of packages 1 and 2 (A) are presently below the scrutiny of the Arunachal Pradesh government and pending mainly because of the non-submission of encumbrance totally free land availability certificates from respective DCs. Under package 2(B), the proposed alignment of the road from Seijosa to Bhalukpong passes by way of Pakke Tiger Reserve evoking opposition from many quarters. Last year in December, the package 2 (C) DPR from Bhalukpong to Bhairabkund has currently been submitted to the Union Ministry. The proposal is awaiting the ministry’s approval, the CM added.