Chandigarh July 30:
The Punjab Government has chalked out an ambitious plan to implement over 75 projects, including expressways, flying clubs, super-speciality hospitals, ring roads and five-star hotels, on which approximately Rs.25,000 crore would be spent.
According to an official release here quoting the Chief Secretary, Ramesh Inder Singh, who presided over a meeting of the executive body of the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board, the Rs.2,200-crore expressway from the upcoming international airport in Mohali to Phagwara, and ring roads around Mohali and Amritsar cities costing nearly Rs.2,300 crore and Rs.2,500 crore respectively, are under active consideration of the State Government.
Mr. Singh disclosed that the Ambanis’ Reliance Energy Ltd. had proposed to construct a four-lane Pathankot-Ajmer expressway at a cost of Rs.8,630 crore. The Reliance Group has already deposited Rs.21.58 crore as bank guarantee with the Board for the 340-km corridor from Pathankot in Gurdaspur district to Punjab’s border with Haryana along National Highway No. 10. The road would reduce the distance between Pathankot and Ajmer by 200 km. The project is expected to be completed by June 2011.
The Chief Secretary said the projects which would be implemented within two to three years include air-conditioned bus terminals at Mohali, Patiala and Bathinda, Hotel Management Institutes at Mohali and Sirhind, five-star hotels in Amritsar and Bathinda, a Habitat Centre and IT tower and a sports complex at Mohali.
Mr. Singh said the State Government had already acquired land for the international airport at Mohali while a 262-acre Central Business District is proposed in Sector 62 of Mohali, 16 acres of which would be used for a five-star hotel and an international convention centre.
The Board also proposes to spend about Rs.400 crore on upgrading infrastructure, beautification, augmenting urban road network and cityscaping of Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Mohali. It also proposes to construct rail over-bridges in Ludhiana, Bathinda, Ferozepur, Nawanshahr, Mansa, Dhuri, Amritsar, Sunam and Tarn Taran by April 2010. Two greenfield super-speciality hospitals one each at Mohali and Bathinda at a cost of Rs.100 crore respectively would be completed in the next couple of years.
The Punjab Government has chalked out an ambitious plan to implement over 75 projects, including expressways, flying clubs, super-speciality hospitals, ring roads and five-star hotels, on which approximately Rs.25,000 crore would be spent.
According to an official release here quoting the Chief Secretary, Ramesh Inder Singh, who presided over a meeting of the executive body of the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board, the Rs.2,200-crore expressway from the upcoming international airport in Mohali to Phagwara, and ring roads around Mohali and Amritsar cities costing nearly Rs.2,300 crore and Rs.2,500 crore respectively, are under active consideration of the State Government.
Mr. Singh disclosed that the Ambanis’ Reliance Energy Ltd. had proposed to construct a four-lane Pathankot-Ajmer expressway at a cost of Rs.8,630 crore. The Reliance Group has already deposited Rs.21.58 crore as bank guarantee with the Board for the 340-km corridor from Pathankot in Gurdaspur district to Punjab’s border with Haryana along National Highway No. 10. The road would reduce the distance between Pathankot and Ajmer by 200 km. The project is expected to be completed by June 2011.
The Chief Secretary said the projects which would be implemented within two to three years include air-conditioned bus terminals at Mohali, Patiala and Bathinda, Hotel Management Institutes at Mohali and Sirhind, five-star hotels in Amritsar and Bathinda, a Habitat Centre and IT tower and a sports complex at Mohali.
Mr. Singh said the State Government had already acquired land for the international airport at Mohali while a 262-acre Central Business District is proposed in Sector 62 of Mohali, 16 acres of which would be used for a five-star hotel and an international convention centre.
The Board also proposes to spend about Rs.400 crore on upgrading infrastructure, beautification, augmenting urban road network and cityscaping of Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Mohali. It also proposes to construct rail over-bridges in Ludhiana, Bathinda, Ferozepur, Nawanshahr, Mansa, Dhuri, Amritsar, Sunam and Tarn Taran by April 2010. Two greenfield super-speciality hospitals one each at Mohali and Bathinda at a cost of Rs.100 crore respectively would be completed in the next couple of years.
