Kolkata:
As soon as known as a metropolis of palaces and processions, Kolkata may quickly flip right into a metropolis of bridges, high-speed street corridors, highways, walkways and flyovers.
Within the state Price range at this time, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has introduced Rs 2,475 crore for city street connectivity that features 4 bridges, six road-widening initiatives and 6 flyovers — most of them in and across the capital metropolis.
Feasibility research can be finished for six different initiatives, of which one is a pedestrian skywalk and the opposite 5 are flyovers — one over Prince Anwar Shah street, one from Ultadanga to Posta Bazar, a 3rd from Paikpara in North Kolkata to Sealdah station, one other one from Garia to Jadavpur and at last the fifth from Majerhat to Garia by way of Tollygunge.
These conversant in Kolkata could discover themselves misplaced within the maze of flyovers introduced at this time.
“To offer emphasis on infrastructure improvement of the state, I’m proposing numerous new schemes,” Mamata Banerjee mentioned within the state meeting at this time. “The principle goal is to attach all rural roads with the state highways and enhance the city connectivity,” she added.
For 46,000 kilometres of rural roads to be constructed within the subsequent 5 years, Ms Banerjee has introduced Rs 500 crore underneath the Partha Shri scheme.
“You’re conscious that since Independence, solely 29,706 kilometres of street had been constructed (until 2011). Since 2011, we have now constructed 89,574 kilometres of recent rural street… We will join rural roads with state highways within the subsequent 5 years,” Ms Banerjee added.
The 4 bridges Ms Banerjee has budgeted for are between Nandigram and Haldia on the Haldi river, a 9.5-kilometre two-lane bridge in Coochbehar district, one other one on state Freeway 12 connecting Siliguri to Darjeeling by way of Mirik, and one more to interchange an outdated one at Khiddrpore.
Roads can be widened to 4 lanes no less than between Kolkata and Basanti, Bantala to Ghatakpukur, Ultadanga to Bangur Avenue, Baruipur to Amtala.
Lastly, flyovers. Six of them would change the face of Kolkata metropolis. They’re:
- A 6-lane, 5-km-long flyover from Tala to Dunlop
- From airport gate to VIP street
- From Maa flyover to Gurusaday Dutta street
- Ruby Kalikapur flyover in South Kolkata
- Sonarpur Bantala street to Sonarpur Chakraberia
- One connecting EM Bypass to New City
The massive give attention to roads is probably a response to the centre’s Rs 25,000 crore allocation for Bengal for roads. The centre’s announcement on February 1 had been greeted with scorn by the Trinamool Congress, which mentioned that Mamata Banerjee had constructed over 88,000 rural roads over the past 10 years and over 5,000 kilometres of state highways.
“The centre ought to take classes from Bengal,” Trinamool leaders had mentioned.
At this time the Congress leaders who boycotted the price range presentation mentioned it was a bluff on the folks of Bengal. Opposition BJP, whose MLAs walked out of the home as Ms Banerjee started her speech, has requested the place she’s going to get the cash for the introduced challenge from.
