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District Roads: Public works department of state/union territory 632,154 10.17% Rural roads: Panchayats and PMGSY: 4,535,511 72.97% Urban roads: Municipal corporations and municipalities 544,683 8.76% Project roads: Various government departments of states/union territories, and SAIL, NMDC and BRO: 354,921 5.70% Total: Total roadways: 6,404,797 ...
At 5,846 kilometres (3,633 mi), it is the largest highway project in India and the fifth longest in the world. [1] It is the first phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), and consists of two, four, and six-lane express highways, built at a cost of ₹ 600 billion (US$6.9 billion). [ 2 ]
Scheme has started to change the lifestyle of many villagers with new roads and upgrades, such as in Manipur. [5] In a research paper, by Asher and Novosad (2020) the effects of the road construction program are described as follows: "Four years after road construction, the main effect of new feeder roads is to facilitate the movement of ...
This project is managed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. The NHDP represents 49,260 km of roads and highways work and construction in order to boost economic development of the country.
As per 2024 estimates, the total road length in India is 6,700,000 km (4,200,000 mi); making the Indian road network the largest road network in the world. At 0.66 km of highway per square kilometre of land the density of India's highway network is higher than that of the United States (0.65) and far higher than that of China's (0.16) or Brazil ...
The Bharatmala Pariyojna (lit. 'India garland project') is a project in India implemented by Government of India.It was slated to interconnect 550 District Headquarters (from the current 300) through a minimum 4-lane highway by raising the number of corridors to 50 (from the current 6) and move 80% of freight traffic (40% currently) to National Highways by interconnecting 24 logistics parks ...
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Investment needed: ₹ 111 lakh crore (equivalent to ₹ 130 trillion or US$1.5 trillion in 2023) over the next five years (2020-2025) to build infrastructure projects and drive economic growth. Energy, roads, railways and urban projects are estimated to account for the bulk of projects (around 70%).