The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved construction of a six-lane, 9.9 km-long bridge across river Ganga on National Highway 96 at Phaphamau in Allahabad at a cost of Rs. 1,948.25 crore. The new six-lane bridge is expected to be completed by December, 2021.
The new bridge will resolve the traffic jam on the existing two-lane Phaphamau bridge. “This will give a boost to pilgrimage tourism and local economy of Prayag,” the official release said.
The current traffic on the old bridge falls to about 40,000 passenger cars, which is a lot more than its designated capacity of 15,000 cars, resulting in severe congestions all the time.
The release said there were only 13 bridges on the Ganga between Allahabad to Farakka before May 2014.
It said an additional 20 bridges were planned, out of which five have been opened to traffic and seven were under construction on the above stretch, bringing the total number of bridges to 33.
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