governament sanctioned ₹8,25,50,400;₹10,50,25,800 and₹12,70,75,000 three constructive years for constructing metal roads in village. find out the total estimated amount sanctioned in these 3 years by rounding off each amount to the nearest ten thousand
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To,
Dated: 01st January,2020
1. The Chief Secretaries of all the State Governments/ UTs.
2. The Chairman, National Highways Authority of India, G-5 & 6, Sector-10, Dwarka,
New Delhi-110 075.
3. The Managing Director, NHIDCL, PTI Building, New Delhi-110001.
4. The Principal Secretaries/ Secretaries of all States/ UTs Public Works Department/
Road Construction Department/ Highways Department (dealing with National
Highways and other centrally sponsored schemes).
5. All Engineers-in-Chief and Chief Engineers of Public Works Department of States/
UTs/ Road Construction Department/ Highways Departments (dealing with National
Highways and other centrally sponsored schemes).
6. The Director General (Border Roads), SeemaSadakBhawan, Ring Road, New Delhi110 010.
7. All CE-ROs, ROs and ELOs of the Ministry.
Subject: - (A) Guidelines for providing type of Median on National Highways
Network; and
(B) Guidelines for Metal crash barrier (Semi Rigid) to be installed on National
Highways.
A. Type of Median
It has been observed that raised medians are being provided along most of the
National Highways/Expressways. As per Manual of Specifications & Standards for
Expressways (IRC:SP:99-2013), only depressed or flush median is to be provided on
Expressways. Such types of medians are essential on high speed corridors for safety of the
road users. The IRC guidelines for 4 /6 laning of highways permit use of raised median for
open country areas also. Since the multi-lane highways being designed as partially
controlled highway for higher speeds, raised median may be a safety hazards and may
cause severe accidents/fatalities once the errant vehicle strike the raised median.
2. As such, while proposing the median for the divided multilane highways /
expressways following may be followed invariably:
(i) Only depressed or flush median shall be provided on all the Expressways. No Raised
median / kerbs shall be provided on Expressways.
(ii) In future, all multi-lane highways shall be provided with depressed/flush median
depending upon availability of land. No raised/kerb median shall be provided
especially in the open country/rural stretches of National Highways. In case of flush
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