Giving further boost to the infra sector the government has given the approval for 12 National highway projects worth Rs 6067.9 crore totalling 476.386 km in eight states, including Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
For expanding National highways, most of the over 476-km projects are under engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode. Out of the 12 projects which were cleared by the Standing Finance Committee(SFC), nine projects are in EPC mode, two in hybrid annuity and the remaining one in OMT (operate-maintain- transfer) mode. SFC has approved reconstruction with geometric improvement of two lane to two lane with paved shoulder of a sections of NH-125 in Uttarakhand.
A total of four projects pertain to Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh for augmenting of existing highway stretches on NH 39 and NH-415. The three projects for Maharashtra pertain to two and four-laning of highway stretches on NH-930, NH-211 (New NH-52) and NH-211 (New NH-52). The West Bengal project pertains to four-laning of Kolaghat to Haldia section of NH-41 with ROB cum Flyover, while rehabilitation and upgrade of Barhani-Kataya Chowk near Shohratgarh section of NH-730. The Goa project is for construction of Margaon Western NH Bypass for NH 17 (New NH-66).