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Ahmedabad, 9 December 2024
It was decided to build Bhuj-Nakhtrana 45 km high speed corridor.
For that Rs. 937 crore will be spent. A four-way road is to be built. It is currently 10 meters wide. For which the work was completed in 2021 and now heavy expenditure is being made again. It will cost a lot to build a canal for desert animals to cross the road.
Even the local people have to make a drain every two kilometers to cross the road. Thus like 100 canals or bridges will have to be built. If they do not do this, people and wild animals like sheep, goats and cattle will have to deal with pollution.
The speed will increase to reach Mata Madh, Narayan Sarovar, Dhordo, Sad Rann, International Border, Panandro Lignite Mine. The white desert is 80 km from Bhuj. 8 lakh people come to Rann Mahotsav. 1 lakh people pass through this road every day. He was very upset. Now he will be charged Rs. 200.
Work done in 2019
On 24 September 2019, the work of Bhuj-Nakhtrana highway was going on very fast. The grave of the mother was a danger for pedestrians. It was not completed for 8 months. Only 50 percent work was done in 8 months. The contractor had to complete it in 6 months. The condition was that it would take two years to build the entire road.
No effort was taken to put soil, stones, stones on both sides of the road, put up sign boards or install reflectors with white stripes. There were one-foot potholes on the side of the road. Crazy branches of acacia were fallen on the road of the highway.
The Nakhtrana Bhuj highway was closed due to heavy rains in 2020.
In July 2024, potholes appeared on the Bhuj-Nakhtrana highway. There were potholes earlier in the roundabout near Bharat Petrol Pump near Angia but after the rain, the dangerous potholes became bigger. Then a trailer carrying a windmill blade overturned and traffic was disrupted.
In 2008
Gujarat State Road Development Corporation announced the completion of the work by announcing a moratorium on the improvement and strengthening of the Bhuj-Nakhtrana road in 2008.
Concessionaire: M. S. Khurana Infrastructure and Toll Road Pvt. Ahmedabad
Project cost: Rs. 35.04 crore
Length: 45 km
Width of carriageway: 7.0 m
Paved shoulders on both sides with the same layer as the main road: 1.5 m
Hard shoulder on both sides: 1.0 m
Month/year of completion of construction: February 2008
Concession period: 13 years 3 months 2 days
Number of toll sections: two
