04-22-2006, 01:36 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Such few lanes on these highways</b>
<i>B.C. KHANDURI on where the new roads could have led, and how the upgradation of National Highways has got bogged down by inactivity</i>
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The UPA government appears to be deliberately neglected the ongoing projects. The present government has announced a number of grand programmes. Unfortuantely resolve to implement them seems to be lacking. From May 2004 to November 2005 less than 632 hectares of land acquisition was made. Award of NHDP Phase II is already behind schedule by almost two years. We do not object to the renaming of Bharat Jodo Pariyojana to NHDP Phase III. What is unfortuante is the delay in seven projects where bids were invited by the NDA government and contracts actually awarded.
The NDA government has not made a political issue out of these delays. Creating world-class infrastructure requires continuation of policies, sustained commitment and a degree of national consensus.
<i>B.C. Khanduri was surface transport minister in the NDA government</i> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i>B.C. KHANDURI on where the new roads could have led, and how the upgradation of National Highways has got bogged down by inactivity</i>
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The UPA government appears to be deliberately neglected the ongoing projects. The present government has announced a number of grand programmes. Unfortuantely resolve to implement them seems to be lacking. From May 2004 to November 2005 less than 632 hectares of land acquisition was made. Award of NHDP Phase II is already behind schedule by almost two years. We do not object to the renaming of Bharat Jodo Pariyojana to NHDP Phase III. What is unfortuante is the delay in seven projects where bids were invited by the NDA government and contracts actually awarded.
The NDA government has not made a political issue out of these delays. Creating world-class infrastructure requires continuation of policies, sustained commitment and a degree of national consensus.
<i>B.C. Khanduri was surface transport minister in the NDA government</i> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->