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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Nov 22: State rural development and panchayat raj minister Shobha Karandlaje said that the government will be chalking out an integrated plan to streamline road improvement and drinking water augmentation within the next three years in the entire state.

"There has been demand for increased grants for roads and drinking water projects. The state has about two lac kilometres of roads including state highways, district main roads and rural roads, as per the survey conducted in the year 2005. We have to take up fresh survey of the roads as a lot of roads were developed during the last three years,” she said in a press conference held here on Friday November 22.

The union government is happy about the implementation of the road development programme in the state. It has agreed to sanction an additional amount of Rs 100 crore. This amount would be spent for Bijapur, Bangalore City, Mysore and Dakshina Kannada districts at the rate of Rs 25 crore each. The government has asked the officials to complete road and drinking water projects before the end of February next year, she narrated.