A total of 322 projects with a length of 12,413 km has been awarded under the Bharatmala Pariyojana till August 2020. Further, 2,921 km has been constructed under the project till the same month, an official Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) release has said.
MoRTH had taken up a detailed review of the national highway network and has given overall investment approval for the Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I Scheme for development of about 34,800 km, including 10,000 km residual National Highways Development Project (NHDP) stretches, at an estimated outlay of Rs 5.35 trillion.
The Bharatmala Pariyojana is an umbrella programme for the highways sector that focuses on optimising the efficiency of freight and passenger movement across the country by bridging critical infrastructure gaps through effective interventions like the development of economic corridors, inter corridors and feeder routes, national corridor efficiency improvement, border and international connectivity roads, coastal and port connectivity roads and greenfield expressways.