Excelsior Correspondent
RAMNAGAR, Dec 28: Maintaining that metalled roads are the lifelines of the development, Ranbir Singh Pathania, former MLA and State spokesperson, BJP, today promised to carve out road from Lohar Laid to Thougar Dwara.
Addressing largely attended public meeting at Dheeran and Baryalta near here today, he said that in his short stint as the Legislator of Ramnagar, road projects worth 800 crore have been sanctioned.
He was give a rousing reception by the people of the on getting sanctioned a road from Marta to Dheeran worth 12 crore and another from Dheeran to Dhanwalt worth 08.68 crore.
He reiterated that metalled road connectivity will be provided to each and every habitation of Ramnagar Constituency. Although, Ramnagar is a far-flung area with a serpentine road network scattered throughout the Constituency and when he was elected as a Legislator, there was not even a single PMGSY road which was metalled or blacktopped. Within a short stint blacktopping work on more than half a score of roads has been done and they stand dedicated to the public and work on other half score of roads (for blacktopping) is underway and is in final stages of completion.
Pathania further said that during his very short stint as MLA, he has dedicated metalled roads upto Panjian, Sundla, Pathwar, Bilaspur, Neeli, Khua, Manwal, Katheel-Ganju, Chowki, Birnoo, Kela and a score of other villages. He said that macadamization works (Phase-II PMGSY) are underway on Marta-Dheeran road, Kulwanta-Jophar road, Bari-Ladana road, Block boundary Katwalt road, Kaghote-Lehri Shumb road, Plassan-Bainsta and a score of other roads of the area.
He said that work on macadamization/carving out of fresh, as many as two scores of roads, sanctioned during his tenure will be started in the near future. He further said that electricity has reached each and every habitation of the hilly area of Ramnagar.