In a move to develop the country’s infrastructure sector, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has set an expenditure target of Rs 11,885 crore for the current fiscal, which also includes flagship road building scheme programme National Highways Development Project (NHDP). The NHAI has to implement various road projects of about 50,000 kms, entailing a total expenditure of about Rs 2 lakh crore, half of which has already been spent for the preparation and widening of about 21,000 km roads.
On the other hand, NHDP, setting up to rehabilitate, upgrade and widen major highways in India to international standards has set a target to build 34,108 km roads in four phases. So far, NHDP has completed widening of 7,501 km road projects while work is in progress on 11,459 km. At present, government is concerned over the slow progress of projects under NHDP and had recently suggested the road ministry to take measures for expediting projects to attract private investment.
Referring to North-South & East-West Corridors road project, NHAI said that 611 km of the project is under construction and only 372 km has been left for award of work, while the major chunk of 6,159 km has already been completed. The total length of the NS-EW network is 7,142 km as North-South (NS) Corridor connects Srinagar with Kanyakumari, while the East-West (EW) corridor connects Porbandar with Silchar. Earlier, the NS-EW project was scheduled to be completed in 2009 but was delayed due to various hurdles like land acquisition and environment clearances.
Infrastructure development is today recognised as essential to sustain India’s economic growth. Within infrastructure segments, roads development is seen as one of the important initiatives to boost the country’s economy. Roads are the dominant mode of transportation in India today as they carry almost 90 percent of the country’s passenger traffic and 65 percent of its freight. Meanwhile, for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) the government has set the $1-trillion investment target for the infrastructure sector.
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