PATNA: The state government on Tuesday orally apprised the Patna high court about three feasible projects worth Rs 96 crore, Rs 76 crore and Rs 12 crore, respectively, to properly connect the Patliputra railway junction with roads from all sides for the convenience of passengers.
However, the government failed to submit a detailed technical report in the court and advocate general Lalit Kishore sought three-week time for it. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S Kumar, while hearing a PIL filed by one Bharat Prasad Singh, didn’t agree to his request and fixed the matter for hearing again on August 21.
Counsels P K Shahi and Satyam Shivam Sundaram represented the petitioner and D K Sinha appeared for railways.
It was due to non-submission of detailed technical report that the court had come down heavily on the state government during the last hearing on August 10. The court had then fixed August 17 as the next date of hearing.
Kishore, along with additional advocate general P N Shahi, told the court that the first feasible project is to connect the junction with AIIMS-Digha elevated road at an expenditure of around Rs 96 crore.
Second feasible option is providing road connectivity with NTPC road which connects Ashiana-Digha road by three inner roads. Kishore submitted that state would require to acquire a land strip of 600 metres in length and 22 metres in width to give final connectivity up to junction and the project would cost around Rs 76 crore.
Last feasible option is building foot overbridges and other infrastructures to connect the junction with Rupaspur canal road from Danapur side and it would cost around Rs 12 crore. The court observed that all these details be brought on record through the detailed technical report.
