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New Delhi: With the unprecedented pace in building National Highways over 53,000 kms added in last nine years Indias road network is marching towards world-class standards with widescale expansions and makeovers, thereby boosting Prime Minister Narendra Modis vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat...
In the last 9 years (2014-23), India has amplified 53,868+ KMs to its National Highways network, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari tweeted on Tuesday...
As per the official data, India had a total of 91,287 km of National Highways till April 1, 2014, which has been expanded to 145,155 km by March 2023..
It bridges the infrastructure gaps through effective interventions like development of economic corridors, inter corridors and feeder routes, national corridor efficiency improvement, border and international connectivity roads, coastal and port connectivity roads and green-field expressways...
As per the ministry, the Bharatmala Pariyojana envisages development of about 26,000 km length of Economic Corridors, which along with Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) and North-South and East-West (NS-EW) Corridors are expected to carry majority of the freight traffic on roads.. Further, about 8,000 km of Inter Corridors and about 7,500 km of Feeder Routes have been identified for improving effectiveness of economic corridors, GQ and NS-EW corridors...
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