Badal unveils plan to beautify Guru Gobind Singh Marg

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today unveiled a plan to widen and beautify the 605 kilometre stretch of Guru Gobind Singh Marg from Anandpur Sahib to Takht Damdama Sahib in the state at a cost of nearly Rs 30 crore.
He asked officials to make the 605 kilometre portion of the Marg pothole free besides ensuring the whole stretch was beautified by installing uniform signage boards and clearing all bushes and weeds along the road at a cost of Rs 8 crore.
Badal said this while presiding over a meeting to review the progress of this beautification project which is a part of the National Highway scheme to be declared by the Centre.

The 21-km link roads to Guru Gobind Singh Marg would also be widened from existing 10 to 18 feet at a cost of Rs 22 crore for smooth movement of vehicular traffic and enable the state to declare these as Other Districts Roads (ODR), the CM said.
He said this step would ensure that the entire Guru Gobind Singh Marg was covered under the planned roads with not even a single stretch of link road on it.
"The underlying objective of this entire exercise is to face lift the road on which the tenth master of Sikhs, Sri Guru Gobind Ji treaded from Sri Anandpur Sahib to Takht Sri Damdama Sahib," Badal added.

The CM directed the Additional Chief Secretary PWD (B&R) to take up this matter with the Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry to ensure prompt completion of this National Highway project connecting Anandpur Sahib to Takht Sri Hazur Sahib in Nanded via Talwandi Sabo.

The Punjab government had already finalised the entire route of Guru Gobind Singh Marg after consultations with eminent historians and Sikh Scholars.
The road stretches from Anandpur Sahib to Takhat Dam Dama Sahib (Talwandi Sabo) in Punjab and then to Takht Hazur Sahib (Nanded) in Maharastra having a total length of 3,080 km.
Of this, 605 km falls in Punjab, 1,123 km in Rajasthan, 164 km in Haryana, 630 km in Madhya Pradesh, 363 km in Maharashtra, 18 km in Delhi and 177 km of this rout falls in Uttar Pardesh.