Widening of existing road to two lane National Highway Standards from Nechipu to Hoj in Arunachal Pradesh

The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure today gave its approval for updating the civil cost to Rs.1255 crore for widening of the existing road to 2-lane national highway standards from Nechipu to Hoj on BOT (Annuity ) basis under the Arunachal Pradesh Package of Roads and Highways.

The cost of the project including civil cost, land acquisition and preconstruction activities and supervision and management is Rs.1524 core.

The Trans Arunachal Highway is a very important highway which runs across the State of Arunachal Pradesh. The project road will improve the internal connectivity of western districts of Arunachal Pradesh with Itanagar, namely Seppa and Bomdila and foster socio-economic development of the whole of the State. Apart from this, the road would also help in hydro power projects coming up in Arunachal Pradesh. The road would also greatly facilitate the security/defence agencies to combat anti-national activities and threat on border areas.

Background:

Widening of the road Nechipu to Hoj to 2-lane has been approved by CCI in June 2009. CCI has further approved the proposal in March 2010 and Mary 2010. This is one of the four projects approved ‘in principal’ by the Cabinet in January 2009 as part of the Arunachal Pradesh Package of Roads and Highways.

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