Union Highway Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, stated the tempo of Nationwide Highways development throughout 2023-24 stood at 34 km/day. The very best-ever tempo was recorded in 2020-21, when it reached 37 km per day.
The Ministry of Highway Transport and Highways is primarily answerable for growth and upkeep of Nationwide Highways (NHs), together with Nationwide Expressways.
The ministry had constructed 10,660 km size of nationwide highways in 2024-25, 12,349 km size of nationwide highways in 2023-24 and 10,331 km size of nationwide highways in 2022-23.
Gadkari stated all of the NHs growth tasks, together with growth of access-controlled Excessive Velocity Corridors (HSC) / Expressways, are deliberate consistent with PM GatiShakti Nationwide Grasp Plan (NMP) Ideas.
“The federal government has constructed 10,660 km of NHs over the past Monetary 12 months 2024-25. Tasks in 26,425 km have been awarded underneath Bharatmala Pariyojana, out of which 20,770 km have been constructed to this point, together with 2,967 km constructed throughout FY 2024-25,” he stated. The minister stated that the federal government has determined to deal with the event of greenfield access-controlled HSCs / expressways for enhancing the logistics effectivity of the nation. Accordingly, he stated 26 greenfield corridors in about 7,500 km have been awarded and, moreover, about 600 km has already been authorised.
“Out of this, about 4,800 km has been constructed to this point. Whole 2,636 km size has already been operationalised,” he stated, including that the remaining sections are deliberate to be operationalised in a phased method within the subsequent two years.
He stated the PM GatiShakti NMP portal depicts the financial zones and the infrastructure linkages required to help them with an goal to holistically combine all of the multimodal connectivity tasks. This additionally facilitates figuring out the lacking gaps for seamless motion of individuals, items & providers for correct connectivity.
