Former cabinet minister of the state Surendra Singh Negi accused the Bharatiya Janata Party governments of hanging Laldhang Chillarkhal motor road in the balance and complicating it for his personal benefit and said that now as soon as the elections come, the regional MLA Harak Singh Rawat statement that the motor road is only seasonal, they are trying to mislead the people of Kotdwar in the name of only seasonal road instead of Baramasi motor road. He said that the road being built presently is being made seasonal only, while the people of Kotdwar are demanding that Laldhang Chillarkhal be opened for traffic forever.
Former minister Surendra Singh Negi said that due to the motor road being under the Forest Department, the Forest Conservation Niyamawali, fulfilling all the rules of the Environment and Wildlife Board,only one part of the motorway was elevated (fly over bridge) and other Approval was given for the strengthening of the part, in which the mandate for financial approval for elevated DPR and road strengthening was issued. But the BJP government kept its tenure complicated.
Shri Negi cited the Right to Information “Major Forest Conservation Project, Government Mandate No. 4465 / x-2 – 2007 – 9 (6) / 2006 dated 20_9_2007 ) in which road reinforcement work should not be done. He said that If the BJP goverment and present MLA had worked further on the work done by him, then presently the road would have been ready?
Former cabinet minister Surendra Singh Negi, while speaking at a press conference held at the guest house of the Public Works Department, while revealing the exploits of the current MLA, said that at present, the regional MLA Harak Singh Rawat, instead of taking forward the development works of Kotdwar, kept it complicated. Due to which Kotdwar has been beaten for many years in the field of development, the former Cabinet Minister, while showing documents of the development works done during the previous Congress tenure, said that Laldhang Chillarkhal road budget was sanctioned due to his tireless efforts during the tenure of the Congress government which came to power in the year 2003. An amount of 1 crore 90 lakh was approved for the motor road, after that the said construction work was also given a contract to the company, while sanctioning an amount of 2 crore 78 lakh for the second phase of construction work.After the BJP government came to power, the said construction work was stopped. Accordingly, an order was also issued by the BJP government to stop the construction work on Laldhang Chillarkhal motor road, after that again in the year 2012 after the Congress government came to power, we started the construction work on the said road. According to the conditions of the Wildlife Board and the State Wildlife Board, an amount of Rs 7 crore 6 lakh was approved for the construction of the said motorway, for which the tender was also done, but then in 2017 there was a change of power in the state. And after the coming of the BJP government, once again the said motor road was entangled by the regional MLA Harak Singh Rawat instead of solving it.
During this press conference, Mayor Hemlata Negi, Chandramohan Kharkwal Sudhanshu, Sanjay Mittal, Shakuntala Chauhan, Rajendra Gusain, Balveer Singh Rawat, Hem Chandra Singh, Vijay Rawat, and others were present.