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Monday 15 August 2011

National Highway plagued by traffic jam

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Agartala, Aug 14, 2011 : The traffic jams, particularly for loaded Lorries in the entire stretch of National Highway-44 from Churaibari to Sabroom has became a major bottleneck for smooth passage of vehicles.

The busiest single road with several curves and poor surface conditions has forced the inter-state truckers, passenger buses to halt on their ways to reach their destination in Agartala and other parts of the state.

Earlier, in the mid part of the May last, V K Yadav, Additional Director General (ADG) of Border Roads Organization (BRO) during his Tripura visit said that the National Highway-44 inside Tripura would be converted into two lane highway instead of four lanes by 2014.

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) had sanctioned the project for making the NH-44 two-lane, but so far the NHAI did not release the sanctioned amount, said Sunil Bhowmik, the Chief executive Engineer of Tripura PWD.

‘The PWD are well aware of the daily situation of the NH-44’, said Bhowmik, adding that the situation would not be improved till the conversion of NH-44 into a double lane highway.

However, he said that the PWD had already started a project with a cost of Rs 200 crore for construction of an alternative highway on a stretch of 83 KMs from Bishalgarh to Belonia via Boxanagar, Sonamura, Kathaliya and Nidaya.

He hoped that after completion of the alternative road, the traffic congestion would be normal.

The national highway from Churaibari to Khashiamangal has been partially completed while massive widening work would have to be done from Mungiakami to Udaipur stretch via Agartala.

Sources said, keeping in view of the poor road conditions, the private transporters have imposed higher cost for transportation of goods towards state capital and other parts of the state. This has resulted in rising prices of all essential commodities compared with other states in northeast.

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