Chandigarh, December 14 - Haryana Chief Minister Mr. Manohar Lal's initiative to resolve bilateral issue with Uttar Pradesh was a major success today when Uttar Pradesh agreed to construct three bridges on River Yamuna. Apart from this, it was also decided that both the states would construct the bridge connecting Hasanpur of Palwal and National Highway to Uttar Pradesh.

The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Adityanath Yogi discussed wide range of bi-lateral issues concerning both the states in the field of revenue, irrigation, water resources, PWD (B&R) and Agriculture in a meeting held at Lucknow today.

Under the Dixit Award given on February 14, 1975 in the case of border of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, an important decision was taken to reconstruct the pillars which are missing from the spot through the Survey of India by March 31, 2020.. An amount of about Rs 20 crores is estimated to be incurred on this work and both the states will bear this amount in the ratio of 50:50. It was also decided in the meeting that, for construction of high-level bridge and road connecting Bilaspur to Khojkipur in district Panipat district, 70 meters of land will be acquired by the Uttar Pradesh government within one month and will get it constructed.

Similarly, Uttar Pradesh Government agreed to construct a bridge on Yamuna River between Faridabad and Greater Noida via Jasna-Manjhwali Atta Gujran and the land will be acquired this month, which will cost Rs 104 crore. Uttar Pradesh also assured to construct a high-level bridge over the Yamuna River on Yamuna Nagar-Rador (State Highway-06) road to Nukur-Saharanpur (MDR-0-1472) road and for this, Uttar Pradesh would acquire four kanal of land. It was also decided that the construction of the bridge connecting Palwal's Hasanpur and the National Highway with Uttar Pradesh would be constructed at its own level and not in the ratio of 50-50.

The issues related to irrigation and water resources were also discussed in detail in the meeting. To resolve these issues, it was decided to convene the next meeting in Agra in this month only.

Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Mr. Rajesh Khullar, Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Mr. Dhanpat Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, PWD (B&R), Mr. Rajeev Arora, Additional Chief Secretary, Irrigation Department Mr. Devendra Singh and senior officers of concerned departments of Uttar Pradesh were also present in the meeting.