India To Spend Rs 16,680 Crore On Upgrading 1,000 km Of National Highways To Expressways

 

The NDA Government has approved a Rs 16,680-crore National Highways (NH) upgradation project that will see construction of about 1,000 km of expressways.
"Government has approved a plan for construction of about 1,000 km expressways at an estimated cost of Rs 16,680 crore on design, build, finance, operate and transfer mode under NHDP phase VI," Minister of State for Road Construction and Highways Pon Radhakrishnan told Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
Radkhakrishnan said the government has identified eight stretches for upgradation into expressways that include-
249 km Delhi-Chandigarh section of NH-1 and NH-22
334 km of Bangalore-Chennai section of NH-4
261 km of Delhi-Jaipur section of NH-8
277 km Kolkata-Dhanbad stretch of NH-2
66 km Delhi-Meerut section of NH-58
200 km of Delhi-Agra section of NH-2
135 km length of Eastern Peripheral Expressway

Note

The Indian road network of 33 lakh km is the second largest in the world and consists of 92,851 kms of National Highways, which constitute only 1.7 % of the road network but carry about 40 % of the total road traffic.