The Centre has planned to complete awarding of projects under the Bharatmala, its flagship highways development program, by 2023. The first phase of the Bharatmala scheme approved in 2017 includes the construction of 24,800 km national highways, in addition to 10,000 km of balance road works under the National Highways Development Program (NHDP). The roads remaining to be built under the NHDP have now come down to about 5,000 km. The program was initially envisaged to be completed by the end of fiscal 2022 but it faced issues of delayed land acquisition, which remains a major concern for infrastructure projects. As of December 2020, projects of around 13,500 km length were awarded and by March this year, work on another 2,500 km of projects is expected to be awarded. By the end of FY21, the government will have around 12,000 km of projects left to be awarded, which is possible to bid out in the next two fiscals. Project awarding activity of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and its implementing agencies like the NNHAI and NHIDCL has been robust this fiscal year, despite the pandemic.
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21 January 2021
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