Nitin Gadkari warns of termination of highway projects over Punjab’s ‘prevailing law and order’
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Nitin Gadkari warns of termination of highway projects over Punjab’s ‘prevailing law and order’

The Hindu  

Expressing concern over the “prevailing law and order situation” in Punjab, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has cautioned Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann that eight severely affected highway projects in the State, costing approximately ₹14,288 crore, would be terminated “if the situation does not improve”. Raising safety concerns on behalf of National Highway Authority of India officers, contractors, and their staff, in a letter to the Punjab Chief Minister dated August 9, Mr. Gadkari said he had come to know of two untoward incidents that occurred recently on the Delhi-Katra expressway projects. Mr. Gadkari, urging the Punjab Chief Minister’s intervention wrote, “.due to pending issues related to land acquisition and the prevailing law and order conditions, a number of contractors-concessionaires have requested to foreclose contracts and have raised claims against NHAI. “Under Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s leadership, Punjab’s law and order has spilled out of control, directly threatening critical National Highway projects.

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