Union Ministers Dr Jitendra Singh and Nitin Gadkari meet regarding fund allocation of J&K's revolutionary Chattergala Project
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New Delhi, Mar 19: The Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh has met Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), Nitin Gadkari for allocation of funds to enable timely completion of the proposed Chattergala tunnel, which will connect district Kathua with district Doda in Jammu and Kashmir. The new Highway travels from Basohli-Bani through Chattergalla to touch Bhaderwah and Doda.
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The new highway project is going to be a historic landmark project providing all-weather alternate road
connectivity between the two distant regions and reducing the travel time from Doda to Lakhanpur to just around four hours. The Chattergala Project envisages a 6.8 km long tunnel for which the Feasibility Survey has already been conducted by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO). The tunnel is likely to take about 4 years for completion after the execution work starts and its construction cost is around Rs. 3,000 crores.
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Since the BRO was facing some constraints of funds, Dr Jitendra Singh has met Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and requested for financial support to BRO through Bharatmala or any other appropriate channel from the MoRTH. Gadkari's response was positive and he issued instructions to work out the best way to execute it. Dr Jitendra Singh has impressed upon the BRO Chief Lt Gen Rajeev Choudhary to expedite the Chattergala project as fast as possible. He said, Chattergala is going to be a revolutionary game changer, particularly for the districts Kathua and Doda.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said, the demand for the tunnel at Chattergalla had been pending for several years, but somehow not taken up by earlier govts because of different priorities. The other ongoing BRO projects in the constituency include construction of road from Bhagwa to Lal-Darman to Masal-Dushnan in district Doda, Chakramore-Maharajpur-Rajbagh-Haria Chak road in district Kathua and upgradation of Phatala to Jakhani road in district Udhampur.