After heavy industrialisation, Uttarakhand has started thinking big in terms of infrastructure development and mulling to create a separate infrastructure fund.
A proposal mooted by top government officials to develop international airports, flyovers, speedways, road connectivity among several other related infrastructure projects in the hill state has caught the fancy of chief minister Vijay Bahuguna.
The proposal came from principal secretary industries Rakesh Sharma, who urged the chief minister to develop infrastructure at par with Delhi and other developed states. For this purpose, Sharma said the government-owned State Infrastructure and Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited (SIDCUL), which is credited with developing world-class industrial estates at Haridwar and Pantnagar, can generate resources to take up such infrastructure projects on its own.
Bahuguna, in turn, appreciated the thoughts and asked the officials to work seriously on these proposals. “We should also have big flyovers, speedways connected with airports,” the chief minister told Business Standard. In this regard, he pointed out that funds would not be a constraint. “We are getting heavy funding for urban development through flagship schemes like JNNRUM. In my tenure, you will see improvement in infrastructure in Dehradun and other cities,” said Bahuguna.
