Bharatmala Programme

Bharatmala is an umbrella programme (launched by Ministry of Roads and Highways in 2015) for the highways sector that focuses on optimizing efficiency of freight and passenger movement across the country by bridging critical infrastructure gaps through effective interventions like:

• Development of Economic Corridors
• Inter Corridors and Feeder Routes
• National Corridor Efficiency Improvement
• Border and International connectivity roads
• Coastal and Port connectivity roads and Green-field expressways
• Government of India targets building 4000 km Greenfield roads and 3000 km expressways under the Bharatmala 2.0 Programme. Some of the identified expressways include Varanasi-Ranchi-Kolkata, Indore-Mumbai, Bengaluru-Pune and Chennai-Trichy.
• Bharatmala will significantly boost highway infrastructure – like it will ....