The government has allocated more than Rs 5,000 crore for ensuring road connectivity to all places having a population of over 1,000 over the next three years.
"We have made an allocation of Rs 5,000 crore for prime minister's road development scheme aiming at providing road connectivity to all places having population of 1000 and above by the year 2003," minister of state for surface transport Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav said here while inaugurating the Indian Roads Congress Seminar yesterday.
Calling roads the life-line of the nation, Yadav said that the conditions of a nation's roads are an index of a nation's prosperity. "About 1,772 kms of new highways had been added to the national highways network over the last two years," he said.
On the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) linking the four metros and the two country wide corridors, he said that about Rs 20,000 crore would be required every year to ensure its completion by 2007.
Earlier, road transport secretary Ashoke Joshi said that the implementation of the NHDP was progressing as per schedule. Bidding procedures had been streamlined and there was no constraint of resources for the project, he added.
Over 300 delegates from the country and abroad are attending the two-day seminar focusing on financing, implementation and operation of highways.
Earlier, road transport secretary Ashoke Joshi said implementation of the ambitious NHDP was progressing as per schedule. Bidding procedures had been streamlined and there was no constraint of resources for the project.
