JAGATSINGHPUR: After a delay of nearly five years, the much-awaited national highway (NH) linking project from OMP Square in Cuttack to Nuagaon here will commence soon. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on Monday issued notification for expansion of NH-55 from OMP Square to Nuagaon village, which is near the proposed Sajjan Jindal-led JSW steel plant site under Erasama tehsil, through Kandarpur.
Of this 94.139 km long NH stretch, 15.339 km comes under Cuttack district and the rest 78.800 km is in Jagatsinghpur. A total of nine bridges and six by-passes will be constructed as part of this project. A total of 113.359 acre Government and 843.790-acre private land are required for the NH. The district administration has already identified six places for construction of by-passes. While a 4.8 km long by-pass will be constructed at Daleighai, another with a length of 7.850 km will come up at Jagatsinghpur. Similarly, the other places where the by-passes will be constructed are Balikuda-Borikina-Kania-Ibrisingh (18.350 km), Erasama-Japa-Bhuana (4.650 km), Chatua (2.6 km) and Balitutha (1.8 km).
