Building of roads in NE to be expedited: minister

The building of roads in the North East under the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme (SARDP) will be expedited to facilitate the region’s economic development, Union Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju said.
Raju, who arrived here yesterday evening on a week-long tour to review progress in road development works in the infrastructure-starved region, said : “The Prime Minister is very particular that for the development of the North East the BRO and especially the SARDP projects should happen fast.We’ve requested the MPs to join us so that it will be a much more coordinated effort,” said Raju, who is also chairman of the Border Roads Development Board.
The Minister, who was welcomed at the military airport here by Lt Gen R K Chhabra, GOC of the Army’s 4 Corps, will meet Ministers and senior officials of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and North Eastern Council during his trip.

Raju, who will tour Assam , Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh to survey development works by the BRO, said he would try to sort out all outstanding issues related to such projects with the State Governments.

The SARDP, a special package of the Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Ministry for the development of roads in Northeastern States, includes an east-west corridor that will link the region with the rest of the country.

Raju, who is accompanied by the BRO director general, Lt Gen K S Rao and three MPs from the North East, will tour Along situated near the Indo-China border, Imphal and Itaganar

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