ITANAGAR, Oct 8: Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein reviewed the status of land acquisition, forest clearance and utility shifting, etc of Trans-Arunachal Highways, District Connectivity Roads and other National Highway projects with the Deputy Commissioners, executing agencies and other stakeholders along with the Chief Secretary, Satya Gopal at the civil secretariat here today.
He said that the State has a very limited working season and called upon the Deputy Commissioners to take up the land acquisition issue seriously and expedite the process. “DCs have to play a very important role in accelerating the road connectivity” he said and reminded that the Union Minister of Roads, Transport & Highways, etc, Nitin Gadkari had assured to invest and construct roads worth Rs 50,000 crore but the State is not able to take advantage of the support given by the central government.
“We are running much behind time and not able to catch up. It is high time we realize the importance of road connectivity and give preference to it over compensation. With road connectivity other development will follow,” the DCM said.
He instructed the Deputy Commissioners to take fortnightly meeting with the executing agencies like BRO & NHIDCL, etc and whenever any issues come up in the road construction process. He also urged them to take the help of the local representatives of the area to convince the public and resolve the issues, whenever any local issue comes up in the construction sites.
Power and PHE & WS Departments were also instructed to complete the shifting of utility services by end of October to enable land acquisition and handing over of 100% encumbrance free land to the concessionaires.
Chief Secretary, Satya Gopal cautioned to abide by the guidelines in preparing estimates for the compensation and said that any deviations from the notified rates will not be accepted by the government nor by the MoRTH. He informed that the State Cabinet today had also passed a resolution to demolish all structures that fall in the Right of Way (RoW) of Highways.
Officials of MoRTH, NHIDCL, BRO& PWD (highways) made power point presentations of the status of land acquisition, forest clearance and utility shifting, etc of highways & road projects. Other issues faced by the executing agencies, BRO and other stakeholders were also discussed in the meeting.
Among others, Commissioner (PWD), Bilatee Pertin, Chief Engineer Highway, Toli Basar, PCCF & Principal Secretary (Environment & Forest), Dr Ravindra Kumar, Deputy Commissioners, officials of NHIDCL, BRO, PWD highways and representatives of contractors were also present in the meeting.

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