Union Minister for Roads, transport, and Highway, Nitin Gadkari announced ₹1,000 crore for new national highways in Uttarakhand and an additional ₹300 crore for the Central Road Infrastructure Fund.
The Union Minister said 42 works costing ₹615.48 crore were sanctioned at the request of the Uttarakhand government under the Central Road Infrastructure Fund. The Uttarakhand chief minister also requested the approval of the construction of a two-lane tunnel for Tehri Lake in Dehradun. He said, “a total distance of 105 km has to be covered by the Mussoorie-Chamba Koti Colony motor road to reach the Tehri Lake from Dehradun, due to which the entire route is in the mountainous area.”
The said tunnel is proposed near Rajpur in Dehradun, which will terminate at Koti Colony near Tehri Lake. The total length of the tunnel will be about 35 km with an estimated cost of the construction of the tunnel amounts to ₹8,750 crore.
