NPP leader and legislator from Sutnga-Saipung Santa Mary Shylla on Thursday said she would personally meet and congratulate the VPP MP from Shillong Ricky AJ Syngkon if the state is getting an additional amount of Rs 290 crore for the repairing of the dilapidated National Highway-6.
“We are happy that the Shillong MP had taken the initiative where he had said that he has got a sanction of Rs 290 crore. Since the state government has already received Rs 200.81 crore so it will be very good for our state if we get another additional amount of Rs 290 crore, which will be Rs 490 crore (in total),” Shylla told reporters.
“We will be more than happy and I myself will go and meet him and congratulate him for getting this (additional) amount,” she said.
The NPP leader from East Jaintia Hills was referring to reports alleging that the Centre had announced sanction of Rs 290 crore for repair and upkeep of NH-6 following Syngkon’s meeting with Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday.
Shyllai however said that the fact of the matter is that the Centre had sanctioned Rs 200.81 crore in October 2023 and the repairing works have been allotted to two contractors.
“The work is going on. They have commenced the work in the month of March and a tenure of one year has been given to complete the road,” she said.
Expressing her gratitude to the state government for ensuring sanctioning of Rs 200.81 crore, Shylla said, “We are so grateful to the government because the people of East Jaintia Hills especially Ratacherra have been suffering and have been agitating from time to time (due to dilapidated condition of the NH-6) prompting the government to take up the matter seriously and now we have got the sanctioned of Rs 200.81 crore. We thank the government of India and MoRTH and we hope to get more sanction in the coming days.”
Stating that it is impossible to get sanction overnight, Shylla said, “The Union minister (actually) was informing about the fund already sanctioned which is Rs 200.81 crore. Now additional amount that the MP is saying, I don’t know what additional amount is he talking about so that is why I am a little bit confused but the fact is Rs 200.81 crore has been sanctioned in October 2023 and remaining is still in process, DPR has been prepared and now we are waiting for the sanction. The remaining is Rs 89.90 crore. And overnight sanction is impossible, only God can do it.”
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