The road transport and highways ministry has taken up a separate scheme for development of 5,477 km roads (NHs and State Roads) in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE) at an approved cost of Rs 7,300 crore.
