NH12 repair on pause over pay
The long-delayed widening and repair work on NH12 on the Farakka-Malda has received a further blow.
Around 1,300 workers, skilled and unskilled, have stopped work since May 17 over unpaid salaries, even as the bitumen cover on 30km stretch of the highway has peeled off, baring craters and potholes that make it a nightmare ride.
The work on the highway, which began in February 2011 with a 42-month deadline, was supposed to be over by 2014-end.
The Centre had entrusted HCC, a leading construction company, to widen the highway from Farakka to Raiganj into a four-lane stretch on BOT (built, operate, transfer) basis.
