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Govt Spending 70 Cr on Artificial Lake in Jammu


GNS Jammu, July 07 – Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah today inspected the construction of 4th bridge over River Tawi at Bhagwati Nagar and received the details of its completion. The 750 mtr long bridge involving an expenditure of Rs. 92 crores is executed by JKPCC.
Omar Abdullah also reviewed the status of work on artificial lake being developed in River Tawi at a cost of about Rs. 70 crores. The Chief Minister was told that the work on the project is going on as per schedule. He also received presentation and got detailed appraisal of the blue prints of Jewel Chock fly-over project being completed at a cost of over Rs. 95 crores.
Giving details of the construction and technical aspects of the bridge, the Managing Director, JKPCC Madan Gupta told the Chief Minister that 90% of the work on the bridge has been completed so far and balance work of left over one span will be achieved after the rainy season. The bridge is likely to be completed by the end of this year.
The value of work done so far is about 83 crore. The bridge is being seen as a great relief to the people as it would smoothen the ply of traffic from south of the city to the western part and to the districts of Rajouri and Poonch. It would also ease the traffic on Jewel Chowk and Canal road to a greater extend.
The Chief Minister also reviewed the progress of work on Legislative Complex, Jammu being constructed by JKPCC at an estimated cost of about Rs. 110 crore.
The new complex will House Assembly and Council Halls, Administrative Units and other Legislative offices. It will cater for the parking in two basement floors and the complex will have latest state of art equipment including elevators, air conditioners, audio-visual system, security system, accelerators etc. MD JKPCC said that the work is being executed as per the bar chart provided to the monitoring cell in Chief Minister’s Secretariat.

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