These Projects cover a wide array of sectors and areas across the state including irrigation, road, housing, health infrastructure, industry, sanitation, and drinking water supply.
The programme will witness inauguration of six projects including multiple road widening projects, a hydropower project in Pithoragarh and projects to improve sewerage network in Nainital. The cumulative cost of the projects being inaugurated is over 3400 crore rupees.
This project of national importance will enable irrigation of about 34,000 hectare additional land, produce 300 MW hydropower and supply drinking water to the six states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The projects include four laning of 85 kilometre Moradabad-Kashipur Road to be built at a cost of over 4000 crore rupees and two laning of 22 Kilometre stretch of Gadarpur-Dineshpur-Madkota-Haldwani road and 18 kilometre stretch of Kiccha to Pantnagar.
These road projects will improve connectivity of Garhwal, Kumaon and Terai region and also the connectivity between Uttarakhand and Nepal. Improved connectivity will also benefit industrial areas in Rudrapur and Lalkuan besides improving the accessibility of Jim Corbett National Park.
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