CM Patel inspects six-laning works of Sanchor-Santalpur highway

CM Patel inspects six-laning works of Sanchor-Santalpur highway

Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel today undertook inspection of the work that is underway to transform the road between Rajasthan’s Sanchor and Patan district’s Santalpur into a six-lane highway, at Tharad in Banaskantha district.

The 125 kilometer long stretch of road between Sanchor and Santalpur is part of a 1,256 kilometer long Amritsar-Jamnagar economic corridor being developed by the Union Road Transport Ministry as part of the BharatMala project.

The six-laning of the Sanchor-Santalpur stretch of the 1,256 kilometer economic corridor will be completed in four phases at an expense of Rs 2,030.44 crore.

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) plans to convert 30 kilometers of the 125 kilometer long Sanchor-Santalpur stretch into six lanes in every phase and the work is expected to get completed in 2023.

Minister incharge for Banaskantha, Gajendrasinh Parmar, MP, Parbatbhai Patel, state BJP general secretary and former minister, Rajnibhai Patel, and officials of the Banaskantha district administration and NHAI accompanied the chief minister during the inspection visit. DeshGujarat