The Punjab government has chalked out ambitious plans to implement over 75 projects including expressways crisscrossing Punjab, flying clubs, super specialty hospitals, ring roads and five star hotels on which Rs 25,000 crore would be spent.
Disclosing about the plans Ramesh Inder Singh, chief secretary, Punjab while presiding over a executive meeting of Punjab Infrastructure Development Board, said besides the expressway from the international airport in Mohali to Phagwara (Rs 2,200 crore), an expressway around Mohali Rs 2300 crore and a ring road around Amritsar city (Rs 2500 crore). Anil Ambani Reliance Energy Ltd has proposed to construct a four lane Pathankot-Ajmer expressway at a cost of Rs 8,630 crore. The Reliance Group has already deposited Rs 21.58 crore as bank guarantee to the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board for the 340 km expressway corridor, starting from Pathankot till Haryana, Punjab Boarder on National Highway 10. It would reduce the distance between Pathankot and Ajmer by 200 km. As regards the expressway projects, the Reliance Company would be buying the entire land and the government would give a commitment to acquire land for the projects at the market rate in case Reliance Company faces any problem in acquisition.
