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Centre to keep tab on money for U.P. road projects

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LUCKNOW: The Centre will monitor the spending of money allocated to the Uttar Pradesh Government for implementation of road projects under the Central Road Fund (CRF) and those of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

Union Minister of State for Roads and National Highways R.P.N. Singh said here on Friday that the Centre wanted development of the State. He admitted that the money for the roads projects in U.P. was sanctioned late.

Mr. Singh said that from June 2009 to March 2010 Rs.435 crore was sanctioned to the State under the CRF and another Rs.555 crore for maintenance and development of the national highways. He said the total funds sanctioned under two heads were 21 per cent more than that in the last financial year.

New highways

He said 422 km length of four-lane roads have been completed in the State this year and contracts for building an additional 469 km four-lane roads issued. These are the four-lane highways between Moradabad and Bareilly, Ghaziabad-Aligarh, Bareilly-Sitapur and Muzaffarnagar-Haridwar. Five two-lane road projects linking Varanasi with Gorakhpur, Kanpur with Kabrai in Mahiba district, Rae Bareli with Allahabad, Aligarh with Kanpur and Agra with Aligarh have also been taken up. The Union Minister announced that a new ring road would be built in Lucknow and one of the four expressways planned in the country would be built in UP. An expressway would also be built between Delhi-Dasna-Meerut, he said, adding that 450 km of State highways would be converted into national highways.

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