The widening work of the National-Highway-44 from the Singhu border to Rai, a 10-km stretch out of a total of 70.5-km-long highway from Mukarba Chowk in Delhi to Panipat, has been halted for the past seven months due to the farmers’ protest.
The Central government had inaugurated the project, worth Rs 2128.72 crore, of 12-lane widening of the NH-44 and the work was allotted to Essel Infra Projects Limited in 2015 during the first regime of the BJP-led government.
The company had, however, failed to complete the project.
