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SMART MOBILITY 2018

Mega Highway Plan

Opening the Seminar session at

Smart Mobility 2018 on Capacity
Building and New Mobility

Plans for India, Yudhvir Singh
Malik, Secretary, MoRTH
presented the government’s

plan for enhanced capacity
building and its Vision 2022

s far as the Ministry of constructed. Last year we touched We have already identified close
Road Transport and about 9,800kms and I am sure given to about 10,000kms of greenfield
Highways is concerned that pace that is continuing so far this highways which reduce the existing
the sweep of it’s mandate year, we should be crossing above distance anywhere between 15 to
Ais very wide. It was 12,000kms. The total length of national 18 percent. Land acquisition for the
exactly one year back on October 24, highways in 2014 was 91,000kms national highways always remains a
2017, that a plan was put in place to which today is 1,29,000kms. But as a challenge but fortunately so far in
develop close to 35,000kms of National part of the Bharatmala initiative, there three or four projects where we have
Highways as part of Bharatmala in is greater focus not only on taking started this process, we have come
addition to the roads which were taken up isolated roads but also taking across least resistance in terms of
the land acquisition. We try that the
up corridors and that is what makes
up under various other programmes.
or brings much greater value on the alignments are so finalised that those
During last four years, 28,000kms whole concept of the scheme of statutory clearances do not come in
length of national highways have been National Highways. the way.

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