Nitin Gadkari ‘Warns’ Bhagwant Mann Over Law And Border Situation In Punjab

New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, in a letter to Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, identified that nation-owned NHAI will haven't obtained every diversified determination alternatively to cancel/terminate eight higher severely-affected toll road projects in Punjab with complete dimension of 293 km costing Rs 14,288 crore, if the legislation and order scenario in the nation doesn't elevate. The letter bears the date August 9.

Gadkari identified that he has paperwork about two most most modern incidents that took place on the Delhi-Katra Throughway projects.

“In a single incident in Jalandhar district, the engineer of the contractor develop into brutally assaulted. Even notwithstanding FIR has been registered on this regard, sturdy motion is required to be taken against the perpetrators,” Gadkari wrote in his letter.

Gadkari identified every diversified incident in Ludhiana district where the predicament camp of the contractor of Delhi-Katra Throughway develop into attacked by miscreants and engineers were threatened of burning the predicament camp and their personnel alive.

“Then once extra, FIR has nonetheless not been filed and miscreants haven't obtained to any extent extra been arrested regardless of written requests by NHAI officials,” he identified.

“If the scenario doesn't elevate, NHAI will haven't obtained every diversified determination alternatively to cancel/terminate Eight diversified severely affected projects with complete dimension of 293 km costing Rs 14,288 crore. These are incessantly greenfield corridors and even cancelling one bundle will render the complete hall pointless,” advised Gadkari.

He wrote that it definitely is much pertinent to note that consequently of pending troubles bearing on land acquisition and prevailing legislation and order predicament, quantity of contractors have requested to foreclose contracts and raised claims against NHAI adding that the NHAI has already terminated three projects amounting to Rs three,263 crore consequently of land availability challenges.

Gadkari, regarding some of basically the most most modern review of NH projects on July 15, which he chaired, identified he develop into assured that pending troubles bearing on land acquisition and legislation and order would be resolved on a priority basis.

“Then once extra, it has been delivered to my note that no progress has been made on this regard and scenario has in a central way worsened,” he wrote, expressing his disappointment.

Gadkari entreated the nation govt to straight away take corrective measures, file FIR and take sturdy actions against the perpetrators that manner that it's necessary to be geared as much as avert such incidents in future and to revive the self belief of NHAI officials and personnel of the concessionaires.

(With PTI inputs)