Road projects worth Rs. 1 lakh-cr up for grab

Accelerating the road building process in the country, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has readied highway projects entailing a staggering investment worth Rs. 1 lakh-cr, Chairman, Raghav Chandra said, explaining that the overall vision of the nodal agency is to focus on development and according to which it has lined up 250 projects with a length of 30,000 km of road length and has already commissioned more than 400 projects in the recent past. As a matter of fact, NHAI has targeted to invest a whopping sum worth $15-16 billion for the current fiscal. About 97 projects with a total length of 6,631 km are currently ready for award.

The projects included Vadodara-Mumbai 6/8 lane Expressway (Phase I ), Surat- Mumbai to Mumbai-Pune expressway and JNPT in Phase II, Delhi-Jaipur expressway, 6-8 lane semi-elevated Delhi-Meerut expressway, Somnath-Porbander-Dwarka section of NH-8E, Bihar/Jharkhand border-Barwa, Hospet-Bellary NH-63, Tamil Nadu-Karnataka Border, Likewise, among others, they also cover the Bengaluru section of NH-209, Solapur-Bijapur section of NH-13, Salasar-Nagpur section of NH-65, Vikravandi-Thanjavur section of NH-45C, and four-laning Nagpur-Wardha-Nanded-Solapur-Ratnagiri section of NH-36.

These apart, score of road projects awaiting approval for award and execution include Hyderabad-Vijayawada-Amaravati Expressway of 278 km (Rs. 2673cr), Nagpur-Hyderabad expressway of 505 km (Rs. 483cr), Hyderabad-Bangalore Expressway, Kanpur-Lucknow Expressway, Ring Road Expressway at Amaravati, and Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway of 600 km.

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Road projects worth Rs. 1 lakh-cr up for grab

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