Union Minister of State (MoS) in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), DrJitendra Singh on Sunday performed BhumiPoojan to start the construction work of State’s second highway Haat (village) at Gurnai, Udhampur.
The State’s first highway Haat is coming up in Kathua district for which the construction work started about a month back.
The two highway Haats in Kathua and Udhampur are among the first lot of such highway complexes proposed by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) across the country. Addressing the media, DrJitendra Singh said that it was a matter of pride for him that State’s first two highway villages are to come up in the Udhampur-Kathua-DodaLokSabha Constituency.
Singh said that highway Haat in Udhampur would be ready within one and half year and it would be a wholesome complex consisting of food restaurant, rest rooms, automobile service stations, workshops, medical dispensary, internetcentre with wi-fi facility and toilet enclosure.
The complex, he said, will also serve as a source of revenue, business and job generation for youth.