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Kangra: The Ministry for Railways has granted permission to the state government to construct overbridge on the Pathankot-Jogindernagar narrow gauge line. The project of Rs 1.68 crore, connecting Bodarballa village with Sakot and Bhatti villages, will prove a boon for residents of five villages.Pawan Kajal, local MLA of the Congress, said this while addressing a press conference here today. He said he had taken up the issue in the state assembly and later on approached former Railway Minister Pawan Bansal in Delhi in this connection and now the permission to construct this bridge over the railway line was granted.He said a number of families from these villages had already migrated to other places for want of road connectivity and hoped that they would return to their ancestral places after the bridge would be built.He said this bridge would be constructed at Rs1.68 crore on Banner Khad and work on this project would start soon. He said the PWD would complete this bridge by the end of the current financial year.