Surface Transport

Objectives

Increasing the coverage and quality of roads and highways is critical to enhancing connectivity and internal and external trade. By 2022-23, we should achieve the following objectives:

  • Increase connectivity by expanding the road network:
    • Achieve the Bharatmala Phase-I target by completing 24,800 km by 2021-22, including 2,000 km of coastal and port connectivity roads.
    • Complete Phase I of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) with quality monitoring at every stage.
    • Double the length of national highways (NHs) to 2 lakh km by 2022-23 from the existing 1.22 lakh km.
    • Widen single/intermediate lane (SL/IL) NHs and reduce the length of SL/IL NHs to less than ....
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