`6-trn worth 10K km Greenfield expressway projects coming up: Gadkari

New Delhi: The government is constructing 25 Greenfield expressways, totalling 10,000 km across the country, at a cost of Rs6 lakh crore, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. Addressing the Annual Session of PHDCCI, Gadkari further said 75-80 per cent of the work on the strategic Zojila Tunnel, which will provide all-weather connectivity between the Ladakh re-gion and the rest of the country, has been completed. He said the highways ministry will get Rs 15 lakh crore if it monetises its road projects. The road transport and highways minister also said that the construction of expressways and economic corridors has helped reduce the country’s lo-gistics costs to 10 per cent, from 16 per cent earlier.