Agartala, 6 th January
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb met Minister for Road Transport & Highways and the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Nitin Gadkari today.
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb held an extensive discussion with Nitin Gadkari today for expediting the development of National Highways in Tripura.
Nitin Gadkari assured full support for attaining Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s HIRA Model of Development for 37lakh people of the state.
Chief Minster requested the Union Minister for supporting the State Government in speedier development of National Highways network by entrusting certain stretches of National Highways to the State Government and declaring more State Highways as National Highways in the State.
Union Minister assured support of the Ministry for speedier development of National Highway network in the State.Chief Minister also requested the Minister for greater support of the Ministry for facilitating micro, small and medium enterprises in the State particularly for cluster development of new Infrastructure Development Centers (at Lalchari, Ambassa and Jalefa, Sabroom) and strengthening of existing Industrial Estates (at Bodhjungnagar and Dhajanagar) in the State.
Union Minister while assuring support for the above proposals also suggested that the Ministry would be happy to support the State Government in the area of value addition to rubber and agarbatti industry, particularly under the Cluster Development Programme of the Ministry.
