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Development works in Punjab
Vigilance team to check quality of work

Badal (Muktsar), June 1
Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal speaks to mediapersons at Badal village in Muktsar district on Friday. A Tribune photograph The Punjab government has decided to constitute a special vigilance team to check the quality of construction of various ongoing as well as completed development works in the state.

Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal speaks to mediapersons at Badal village in Muktsar district on Friday. A Tribune photograph

Bathinda-Chd highway to be widened
Badal (Muktsar), June 1
The four-laning of the Zirakpur-Bathinda road will begin on September 15, the Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal said today. Widening of the Bathinda-Chandigarh highway would remove traffic bottlenecks at Rampura Phul, Barnala, Sangrur, Patiala, Banur, Rajpura and other places enroute. It would have 14 grade separators and flyovers at Kharar-Banur, Tepla crossing, Liberty Chowk Rajpura, at the merging point of Patiala-Sangrur Dhanaula bypass, junction of Samana-Nabha Road, T-Junction with NH 71 at Barnala, Handiyaya Chowk, Bhucho Mandi Chowk, Bibi Wala Chowk and Rose Garden Chowk at Bathinda.


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Submit details of projects in 15 days, officials told
Bathinda, June 1
Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal today Bathinda MP Harsimrat Badal addresses a meeting of vigilance and monitoring committees of Bathinda and Mansa districts at Badal village. A Tribune photograph instructed the officers of various government departments in Bathinda and Mansa districts to submit within 15 days the reports in connnection with the ongoing development projects and the projects that have got completed by the departments in these districts so far.

Bathinda MP Harsimrat Badal addresses a meeting of vigilance and monitoring committees of Bathinda and Mansa districts at Badal village. A Tribune photograph






 

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Development works in Punjab
Vigilance team to check quality of work
SP Sharma
Tribune News Service

Badal (Muktsar), June 1
The Punjab government has decided to constitute a special vigilance team to check the quality of construction of various ongoing as well as completed development works in the state.

Disclosing this here today, the Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal, said the team would be headed by an officer of the rank of inspector general of police and would submit its report within one month.

He said technical experts would also be included in the team to analyse the quality of construction. He said in case any discrepancy or compromise in the construction work came to the fore, the responsibility of the officers concerned would be fixed.

Sukhbir said construction of all roads, channelisation of canals and channels, laying of sewerage lines, installation of street lights, provision of potable drinking water besides other rural development projects would be checked by the team that would submit its report by July 1.

Earlier, the Deputy Chief Minister reviewed various development projects being undertaken in the Malwa region and directed the officials concerned to ensure completion of all the projects within the stipulated period.

Sukhbir reiterated the state government’s commitment to provide world class infrastructure in the state. He said within the next five years, all major towns and cities of the state would be connected with four to six-lane roads. He said the four-laning of the Amritsar-Sriganganagar road at the cost of `3,000 crore would be completed in the next four years.

The four-laning of the `2,508-crore Zirakpur-Patiala-Bathinda road will begin on September 15. He said it would have 14 grade separators and flyovers, three rail overbridges (ROBs) at Rajpura bypass and two at Sangrur bypass and Rampura Phul.

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Bathinda-Chd highway to be widened
Tribune News Service

Badal (Muktsar), June 1
The four-laning of the Zirakpur-Bathinda road will begin on September 15, the Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal said today. Widening of the Bathinda-Chandigarh highway would remove traffic bottlenecks at Rampura Phul, Barnala, Sangrur, Patiala, Banur, Rajpura and other places enroute.

It would have 14 grade separators and flyovers at Kharar-Banur, Tepla crossing, Liberty Chowk Rajpura, at the merging point of Patiala-Sangrur Dhanaula bypass, junction of Samana-Nabha Road, T-Junction with NH 71 at Barnala, Handiyaya Chowk, Bhucho Mandi Chowk, Bibi Wala Chowk and Rose Garden Chowk at Bathinda.

It will have three rail overbridges (ROBs), one at Rajpura bypass and two at Sangrur bypass and Rampura Phul.

The Chandigarh-Bathinda Road will have 11 vehicular underpasses, one in Banur, five on Patiala bypass, three on Sangrur bypass, Sunam junction and military area near the army camping ground.

It would have 21 pedestrian underpasses, 17 on Patiala by-pass, village Channo, Gurdwara Mastuana Sahib, military area in front of KV School.

Besides, the road will have a major high-level bridge on Bhakra main line on Patiala bypass besides service roads in Zirakpur, Banur, Rajpura, Bhawanigarh, Mastuana Sahib, Dhanaula, Barnala, Tapa, Rampura Phul, Lehra Mohabbat through Bathinda city. 

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Submit details of projects in 15 days, officials told
Tribune News Service

Bathinda, June 1
Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal today instructed the officers of various government departments in Bathinda and Mansa districts to submit within 15 days the reports in connnection with the ongoing development projects and the projects that have got completed by the departments in these districts so far.

The instruction came while she was addressing a meeting of Vigilance and Monitoring Committees of the Bathinda and Mansa districts at Badal village today.

Bathinda Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishore Yadav, Mansa Deputy Commissioner Amit Dhaka, Bathinda additional deputy commissioner (Development) Mohammad Tayyab, Bathinda SDM Rambir and Talwandi Sabo SDM Anil Garg also took part in the meeting.

Harsimrat also asked the officers to give the details of the works, which have already been completed as well those lying incomplete, in their respective departments. She said the officers should mention the date of completion of every work and the causes for the non-completion of incomplete works.

Harsimrat also instructed the officers to visit the villages personally to check the progress of works. She said after the completion of the work, the officers should obtain the signature of the Sarpanch of the village concerned.

She also asked the officers of the Irrigation Department and the Tube well Corporation to present reports pertaining to the villages facing shortage of water for irrigation purposes.

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