10,000-km Greenfield expressways at Rs4.5 lakh cr investment

New Delhi: The government is constructing several Greenfield expressway projects totalling 10,000 km across the country at a cost of Rs 4.5 lakh crore, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said Monday.

The road, transport and highways minister said the road network is being set up under the Bharatmala Pariyojana. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has generated more than Rs70,000 crore through various models of financing and the amount will be utilsed to build highway projects, he noted.

“The government has conceptualized Bharatmala Pariyojna of 65,000 km of highway development across the country. The phase-1 road network is of 34,800 km," he said.