The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has asked the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to increase its efforts to ensure speedy completion of India-Nepal strategic roads so that the Indo-Nepal border is effectively managed by the border guarding force and benefits accrue to the general population along the border areas.
The CAG in its 23rd audit report on the Indo-Nepal Border Road Project, submitted to Parliament recently, said that under this project, the construction of the Indo-Nepal border (INB) roads of 1377 km in three states — Bihar (564 km), Uttar Pradesh (640 km) and Uttarakhand (173 km) — was taken up in November 2010 with the aim to construct roads of strategic importance along the Indo-Nepal border by March 2016.
