The Madhya Pradesh government has spent Rs 120 crore on its own for maintenance and repair of national highways in the state besides utilising the Centre provided funds.
A number of works are withheld since various sanctions are pending with the Centre, an official spokesman said recently. According to a spokesman in the State government, the length of national highways in the state is 4,709 kilometres.
On December 16, 2009, the Centre took away maintenance and reconstruction work of the highways measuring 3,828 kilometres from the NH wing of the Public Works Department and handed it over to National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).
The NHAI has, however, ignored the works. On the State government’s insistence, maintenance work of 1,460 kilometre long roads was handed over to the State government again till April 30, 2012. The NH wing has the work of maintaining a total of 2,341 kilometre long national highways.
The 1,460 kilometre long roads which have been handed over to the State for maintenance after a gap of two and a half years were in very bad shape. Traffic remained disrupted for a long time on these roads in the monsoon season in year 2011, the spokesman said.
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