MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGH WAY AUTHORITY FEELING IT DIFFICULT TO MAINTAIN THE MOUNTAINOUS ROADS AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE

The  Ministry of road transport and highways has started to limit the flagship projects carriage way to 5.5 meters where as it requires to be twelve meters widening which would definitely involve additional deforestation and the slope cutting of hill profiles as per the recommendation of the code for practice based on the classification of soil at the dimensions of the mountainous roads required for the all weather connectivity in the hill states of Himachal Pradesh and the Utterakhand for which the ministry of the road transport and the highways has started deviating it's previous guidelines required for the mountainous roads to support the government plan and proposals by way and virtue of which the classification of roads described by the code and specifications under law code manual of the provision made and created for the highway development projects has lost its vision and the limitations prefixed by the standard made and created for the development protocol mentioned in the extra widening of roads and highways infrastructure identity .No doubt in the mountainous roads problem of landslides will definitely occur and create trouble to the green belt of the area and impact to the ecological sensitivity of the zone for which the suitable  classification of road and highway must be preferred to recommend the amendments found necessary by the study of protocol mentioned in the mountainous roads and highways infrastructure as creating hurdles in the development protocol of the design considerations too required to protect the shaddy soils and the profiles of the hill side cuttings along with the protection of valley side retaining walls essentially required for the attainment of carriage way .