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The rapid increase in Covid cases and statewide lockdown has impacted the ongoing development projects of Dhanbad as migrant labourers engaged in them have returned to their native places at Bokaro, Ranchi and Bihar.
An eight lane road widening project worth Rs 411 crore and construction work of a park at Liloristhan in Katras have been impacted with lack of skilled labourers.
The highway project, a brain child of former mayor Dhanbad Chandrashekhar Agarwal, is aimed at diverting the traffic on the By pass road and thereby decreasing the load on existing internal roads of Dhanbad.
M.K. Verma, project in charge of the eight lane project being executed with the help of the State Highway Authority of Jharkhand, said,“Though around 23% of the project has already been completed but the work has been affected in one half of project from Kako Math to Binod Bihari Mahto Chowk since about a week as some skilled labourers working on the project have left to their places since the imposi