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Two new showrooms/office spaces, double height (135 sq m each with bath) for lease in upscale Campal/Miramar beach area, Panaji, Goa. Contact: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed. ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre (GDRC) Email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- NHAI agrees to carry out widening of NH 17 ----------------------------------------------------------- Amid strong request from the State PWD Minister Churchill Alemao, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has finally agreed to carry out the widening of the National Highway 17 in the 45-meter width. The NHAI had earlier planned to acquire land of 60 meter width along the NH17. However, due to the stiff opposition from the minister, it has agreed to carry out the four-lanning of highway within 45 meters, sources told Herald. The sources said that Alemao in his proposal to the NHAI, Alemao had stated that the four-lanning should be carried on the existing roads as this will minimize the demolition of houses for the project. “According to the earlier alignment submitted to NHAI by the consultants Wilbur Smith, 1400 houses would have faced the axe while with the present 45-mt width only 188 face demolition,” sources maintained. The officials informed that the houses and structures that face demolition - the major stretches - are near Siridao and Porvorim (between O'Coqueiro and Guirim Highway) as there is no land acquired both sides of the highway. Officials also informed that the NHAI has also agreed to carry out the four-lanning on the exiting highway and scrapped the plans to have bypasses at many places. “The NHAI has informally agreed to drop the plans of a bypass from the Green Park Hotel, Guirim to Mandovi Bridge Panjim,” officials who did not want to be named told Herald adding “more or less the four-lanning would be on existing highway.” The major bypasses are - at Bambolim just after IPHB to Sirdona, as the NHAI wants to negotiate the curve there; Nuvem (from behind Agnel Ashram to Navelim); 10-km bypass in Cuncolim and also at Tapona and Gagibaga (where the Union Ministry of Surface and Roads has already acquired land of 30 mt width. The finer points like the flyovers, underpasses, overpasses are still to be decided upon, officials stated. The sources said that the Public Works Department has also moved a file to the government for the appointment of a land acquisition officer. ‘Once the officer is appointed the acquisition will begin soon,” officials stated. Earlier this week, the chief minister Digambar kamat stated that NHAI 'has more or less finalised' the alignment and that bids would be invited in 2-3 months' time. The project would be built on BOOT basis by NHAI. ----------------------------- HERALD 11/9/09 page 2 ------------------------------------------------------------ GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK ----------------------------------------------------------- promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa ----------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601 GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mail: [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------
