Lok Sabha Debates
Need To Undertake Repair And Conversion Of National Highway No. 60 Into Four Lane ... on 15 July, 2014
Sixteenth Loksabha an> Title: Need to undertake repair and conversion of National Highway No. 60 into four lane in West Bengal.
SHRIMATI SATABDI ROY (BIRBHUM): This is to bring to the kind notice of the Government that a major road route of 155 KM length in the District of Birbhum of NH 60 was to be constructed and undertaken by the Highway Department about 15 years ago which connected two adjacent Districts of Murshidabad and Burdwan towards NH 34 and NH 2. It is called a second route of North Bengal connection.
Railway connectivity of the District Town Suri is still poor and most dependable route is NH 60 for the majority of people of the district.
Big mines like Stone and China clay and so many big and small industries as well as Bakreswar Thermal Power Plant are transporting their raw-materials and products through this highway. Employment of lakhs of people have been dependent upon this highway.
Thousands of overloaded vehicles with stone chips have been passing through this road and fulfilling the need of stone chips for entire Eastern India and the Government has been earning a good amount of revenue from this NH 60.
Side by side movement of vehicles are causing deaths of numerous lives in road accidents. Accidents and road jams have increased in a sharp manner due to the damaged condition of the entire road which requires immediate repair.
Considering plying of huge number of vehicles and occurrence of the accidents and earning of Government revenue from NH 60, urgent repair, renovation development and conversion to 4 lane is immediately required.