GUWAHATI : An effort on the part of the Public Works Department (PWD) of Assam to get funds from the World Bank for the development of the State’s road connectivity has finally paid dividends. The World Bank has already sanctioned the funds to the State PWD.

The funds of the World Bank will be used to build 1000-km of new roads in the State. In the first phase, Rs 1950-crore has been sanctioned for building 500-km of roads in different parts of the State.

Dibrugarh (Assam): The railways are battling time and resource crunch to complete the country’s longest 4.94 km rail-cum-road-bridge across the mighty Brahmaputra at Bogibeel.

The bridge will provide connectivity to upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and cut down by 10 hours access to the border with China.

NGO City Connect gives design inputs to Chennai Corporation

Residents of the city may soon have more recreation spaces at an unlikely venue – beneath flyovers. The Chennai Corporation has planned to turn untidy, unused areas beneath all its flyovers into vibrant public spaces. Accepting many of the proposals made by a consultant City Connect, an NGO, for optimum use of space beneath five flyovers at a meeting on Thursday, the civic body decided to cover all the flyovers in the city under the beautification scheme.

NABARD extending big assistance

The government has sanctioned Rs.1,000 crore for the Public Works Department (PWD) to take up works of road and construction of bridges.The funds have been made available for the Rs.701-crore projects announced in the last budget and for the Rs.291.33-crore road development project being implemented with the financial assistance of NABARD.

A section of local residents on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court for a direction to the Government to build a pedestrians' over-bridge on a busy road near Jangpura metro rail station here.

The plea, made by Jangpura Residents Welfare Association (JRWA), is likely to come up for hearing today (Wednesday) before a Bench of Acting Chief Justice A. K. Sikri.

Bokaro, Feb. 22: Sudesh Mahto today laid the foundation stones for two road projects and promised Rs 50 crore for renovating a decades-old barrage in Chandankyari, claiming that Ajsu had done more for the backward block in 26 months than any other party did in five decades. The two road projects — Jodhadih More to Chandankyari worth Rs 14.59 crore and from Mamar Kudar to Dubey Kant estimated at over Rs 6.50 crore — will together comprise over 50km.

After East Delhi, it’s the turn of upmarket South Delhi to boast of Metro lines across river Yamuna. The two upcoming bridges (both 600 m long) will connect Nizamuddin in South Delhi with Mayur Vihar phase I in East and another will link Kalindi Kunj (South) to Noida. While one bridge will be constructed as a part of the Mukundpur to Yamuna Vihar corridor, the other will be built for the Kalindi Kunj to Botanical Garden corridor of the Delhi Metro phase III network.

Shimla: The World Bank has sanctioned Rs 74.24 crore for the remaining 37 roads and bridges in different parts of the state. Stating this here yesterday, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said he had received a communication from Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh in this regard. He said the Union Minister took up the case with the Empowered Committee headed by the Secretary (Rural Development), Government of India, and recommended it for funding by the World Bank.

MUMBAI: The plans for the second line of the Mumbai Metro on the Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd route have got a shot in the arm with the railways granting permission for a Metro bridge across the Central Railway (CR) lines at Kurla and Mankhurd. This is seen as a major development by senior officials at the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), who said that work on Metro-II could now be speeded up. Getting the permission was not easy, say officials.