Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Friday directed the state government and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to conduct a proper study on the stretch between Rajauli and Koderma on National Highway-31 to ascertain why it gets damaged even after frequent repairs.
Hearing a PIL filed by Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan after he took suo moto cognisance of the road’s poor condition, the division bench of Dr Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad observed that the 32-km-long stretch has never been in a good state.
The bench ordered the government and NHAI to make the stretch motorable in a time-bound manner. Though the expansion of the road seems unlikely, it ought to be strengthened, the bench said.