NATIONAL HIGWAY AUTHORITY OF INDIA TEAM TODAY VISITED DAKOHA AND DHANOWALI RAILWAY CROSSINGS

I apprised the team sent by Hon'ble Minister Sh. Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highway & Shipping, New Delhi on 4 th April 2016 , As National Highway Authority of India Project Director cum General Manager ( Tech ) Mr. Vipan Sharma along with Mr K.L. Sachdeva Manager ( Tech ) National Highway Authority of India , Mr D. Sarkar Team Leader Independent Engineer , Mr K.M. Dixit SOMA ISOLUX visited Jalandhar Cantt Railway Crossing at Dakoha and Dhanowali to access the viability of Railway Over Bridge at Dakoha Railway Crossing and Railway Under Bridge at Dhanowali Railway Crossing having different options for outgress and ingress .told them that these Railway Crossings remain closed most of the time due to heavy rush of Trains on this Railway Track . I pointed out that  the delay in the construction of P.A.P. and Rama Mandi Flyover have created Traffic Hazards at P.A.P; Chownk. While Mr Vipan Sharma Project Director cum General Manager (Tech) National Highways Authority of India replied that construction work at Rama Mandi Fly over and P.A.P. Chownk Flyover will be in progress within a fortnight. Others present were at the site  with me were P.A. Mr Ashish Chopra and Councilor Balbir Singh Bittu.

LETTER FORWARDED TO UNION MINISTER ON 13 TH JAN 2016 ENCLOSED FOR REFERENCE PLEASE.         

MANORANJAN KALIA M.L.A.                                                           

Former Minister, Punjab

Jalandhar City

Date 13-1-2016

Respected Sh. Nitin Gadkari ji.

                                                  Namaskar,

Subject:-    Six Laning of Panipat- Jalandhar section of National                                     Highway NH-1 (New NH-44) Km. 96.00 to 387.10                                        (Improvement of  Entry/Exit points to Dakoha &                                          Dhanowali Level Crossing abutting the National     Highway                       near Rama Mandi Chowk, Jalandhar at RD 371.18).

                   It is brought to your kind notice that there exits two No. Level crossing one at Dakoha and the other at Dhanowali abutting the National Highway Panipat to Jalandhar at Jalandhar near Rama Mandi Chowk. The level crossing at Dakoha (S-69/T-3) has TVU of 2,59,352 as on 6/2015 and the level crossing at Dhanowali  (S-70/T--3) has TVU of 92185 as on 6/2015 and these level crossing just abut  very near to the National Highway. These both level crossing fall on the very busy Railway section of Delhi-Amritsar. These level crossing are closed most of the time due to the very busy Railway movement on this section of Railways. Whenever  there is closure of level crossings, the traffic piles up on both sides of the crossings. The traffic on the side abutting the National Highway even spills over on the National Highway thus hindering the smooth movement of traffic on the highway.

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               Thus there is dire need of construction of Grade Separator at this location of Panipat -Jalandhar six lane highway along with ROB's over these level crossings merging with the Grade Separator so that there is smooth Entry/ exit of traffic at these locations of Dakoha & Dhanowali.

                 You are very kindly requested to ask the concerned authorities entrusted with the six laning of this highway i.e. National Highway Authority of India to facilitate the construction of Grade separator at this location along with ROB's over these level crossings merging with the grade separator so as to have smooth entry/exit of traffic to Dakoha & Dhanowali over the level crossings abutting the National Highway at these locations.

                 With regards

Yours Sincerely,

-sd-                       

(MANORANJAN KALIA)

Hon'ble Minister Sh. Nitin Gadkari,

Minister of Road Transport, Highway & Shipping,

New Delhi.