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Forest hurdle to highway widening [1]

Gangtok, April 25: The double-laning of NH31A, the lifeline of Sikkim, has hit a hurdle as the Bengal forest department has not yet granted permission to the Border Roads Organisation to work on the stretch that runs through Darjeeling district.

Publication Date: 
26/04/2010
Telegraph (Kolkata) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Highways [4], Sikkim [5], Gangtok [6], West Bengal [7], Darjiling (D) [8], Siliguri [9]
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