Patna’s Ganga pathway to partially open in March next year

The 5.50km-long Digha-AN Sinha Institute stretch of the ambitious Ganga Pathway, considered Patna’s version of Mumbai’s famous Marine Drive, will be opened for vehicular traffic by March next year, officials said on Sunday. This is part of ₹3,390 crore signature project coming up on the southern bank of River Ganga to minimise traffic load on the congested Ashok Rajpath.

Envisoned by Nitish Kumar during his second stint as the chief minister, the road construction department (RCD) in 2013 laid the foundation stone of the 20.50km four-lane expressway, that connects National Highway-30 and AIIMS-Digha elevated corridor in the west with the upcoming six-lane Kacchi Dargah-Bidupur bridge over River Ganga in Patna City in the east.