Farmers Movement Archive

Road work gathers pace, National Highway-44 likely to reopen fully on December 16

Sonepat, December 13The work to remove concrete barricades at Singhu continued on war footing for the second day in a row today.Officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), however, claimed the traffic on the NH-44 would be resumed completely from Thursday morning.90% JOB completeAbout 90% work on the Delhi side is done. Most likely, small four-wheelers will be allowed to ply on the road from Wednesday evening while the complete traffic will resume from Thursday morning. Anand Dahiya, DGM (Technical), NHAIThe teams of the NHAI along with the district administration and the Delhi Police carried out a special drive to clean the protest sites on a day-and-night basis.DC Lalit Siwach, SP Rahul Sharma and SDM Shashi Vasundhra on Monday visited the protest site, spread over a 6-km stretch, to take note over the cleaning and dismantling of the remaining structures on the NH-44.Besides, a maximum farmers had returned earlier and just three-four groups headed to their homes from the Singhu border on Monday.The work to dismantle the main stage continued for the third day in a row and it may be completed by Tuesday morning, said Deep Khatri of the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Youth Brigade.Meanwhile, Anand Dahiya, DGM (Technical), NHAI, said the work to remove concrete boulders at Singhu was almost complete and now the teams were busy cleaning the debris.“We have been moving towards the fine tuning of the roads and it may be completed till Tuesday afternoon. However, the patch work on the NH-44 will start on Monday night,” he added.During his visit, the DC directed the farmers left behind to vacate the NH-44 at the earliest. “The NH-44 within the limits of the district has been cleared and while the potholes will be filled within 24 hours,” he added.

The Tribune

2021-12-14