The Centre has set a 30-day deadline for Bengal to hand over the rest of the “7 to 8 per cent” land to the National Highways Authority of India for a long-pending project to widen a 67km stretch of NH12 (erstwhile NH34) between Krishnagar and Baro Jaguli in Nadia, sources in the PWD have said.
Such a deadline to hand over land is unprecedented, a senior bureaucrat told this paper.
“The message from Delhi is clear… The future of the project will be uncertain if the land is not handed over in the next 30 days,” the official said.
