NHIDC road projects
The #Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has awarded 5,688 km of highway building contracts and constructed 4,021 km as of November 2016, led by NHIDC.
As of 18th Oct. 2016, the #National Highway and Infrastructure Development Corp (NHIDCL) is handling 134 projects covering an approx length of 8,007 km to be executed at a cost of approximately Rs.100,000 crore.
A total of 4,148 km of roads have been constructed so far in the Naxal Areas.
The Government has approved a plan for constructing 1,000 km of Expressways along High Density Corridors like the Vadodara-Mumbai Corridor and Delhi-Meerut Corridor.
These are: Delhi-Meerut (66km) to be constructed in four packages, out of which two packages (i.e. Nizamuddin Bridge to UP Border and Dasna to Hapur) have already been awarded. The third package, namely UP Border to Dasna is in advanced stage of award. For the fourth package i.e. New Alignment from Dasna to Meerut, bids have been invited.
Eastern Peripheral Expressway, 135 km Kundli-Palwal, is to be completed by March, 2018.
Western Peripheral covers 135 km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal. Manesar-Palwal section is ready; Kundli-Palwal is to be done by August, 2018.
Vadodara-Mumbai Corridor, 400 km, is to be completed in three phases.
Bangalore-Chennai, 262 km on NH-4 is at Feasibility-cum-Preliminary Design Report Stage.
The other projects are: 261-km Delhi-Jaipur on NH-8, 249-km Delhi-Chandigarh on NH-1 and NH-22, 277-km Kolkata-Dhanbad on NH-2, and 200-km Delhi-Agra on NH-2.
New Initiatives
#Bharatmala: This has been envisaged as an umbrella program that will subsume unfinished parts of NHDP and also focus on the new initiatives like development of Border and International connectivity roads, Coastal & port connectivity roads, National Corridors Efficiency improvements, Economic corridors development and others.
#SetuBharatam program is for building bridges for safe and seamless travel on National Highways.
The aim is to make National Highways free of railway level crossings by 2019 by building Railway Over Bridges/Under Passes. 1,500 old and worn down bridges to be improved by replacement/widening/strengthening.
National Highways Interconnectivity Improvement Project
This is a project to ensure safe, fast and all weather movement of traffic on National Highways mostly located in backward regions. Development of 1,120-km of National Highways in the States of Karnataka, Odisha, Bihar, Rajasthan and West Bengal have been approved. The projects are already taken up for implementation and 429 km have been completed. The civil works are expected to be completed by July, 2019 and maintenance works are expected to be completed by July, 2024.
#Logistic Efficiency Enhancement Programme (LEEP): It is aimed at enhancing the freight transportation in India through improving cost, time, tracking and transferability of consignments through infrastructure, procedural and Information Technology (IT) interventions.
The ministry has shortlisted 15 locations with the highest freight movement for the development of multimodal logistics parks worth Rs.32,853 crore.
The locations are in the states of #Maharashtra, #Punjab, #Gujarat, #Rajasthan, #Tamil Nadu, #Karnataka and #Telangana. 44 Economic Corridors, 170 feeder routes and inter-city corridors, 35 logistics parks and 191 choke points have been identified for development to improve logistics efficiency of National Highways. fii-news.com
