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Centre grants Rs 720 crore to repair Dehradun-Haridwar road

Dehradun, Dec 4 (UNI) The Dehradun-Haridwar road will be refurbished in the next one year with the union Ministry of Road Transport and National Highways granting ₹720 crore for the project.
This was informed by union Minister of Road Transport and National Highways Nitin Gadkari in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha raised by BJP state chief Mahindra Bhatt.
The matter surfaced up in the upper house as the State BJP President and Rajya Sabha member Mahendra Bhatt raised question pertaining to the incomplete works on NH-7 and NH-34 as this was causing huge problems for the travellers, mainly tourists coming to Haridwar and Rishikesh.
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