Helpline soon for complaints against toll plazas: Singla
AMRITSAR: Punjab PWD minister Vijay Inder Singla said here on Monday that the government will soon launch an helpline for complaints related to toll plazas, so that no one is harassed by them. He said companies have been also asked to extend of all the facilities to commuters and reduce traffic stagnation on plazas. “The companies have been given one week for starting the facilities,” said the minister.
After opening the newly constructed Bhandari Bridge extension for public use here, he addressed a press conference at the Bachat Bhawan along with local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, school education and environment minister OP Soni and MP Gurjit Singh Aujla.
Singla said that the state government has decided to construct 32 new railway overbridges and railway underbridges across the state. These bridges will be constructed in two years at an estimated cost of ₹1,350 crore.
He said, “The roads which have not been repaired for more than six years or more will be repaired on a priority basis. In the next one-and-a-half years, seven new railway overbridges will be be set up in the Majha region at an estimated cost of ₹355 crore.”
The projects are at various stages of planning and execution, but will see the light of day on time. Besides easing the vehicular traffic, the railway overbridges on all manned and unmanned level crossings will eliminate the risk of accidents, he added. “During the tenure of the previous government, the halfbaked under-construction BRTS project was inaugurated in a haste. It is our government that took up the case with the railway authorities and pressed upon them to complete the portion of the Bhandari bridge extension in a given time frame,’ said Singla.