Budget 2022: Gati Shakti to gather pace with 25,000 km highway expansion

As part of its mega investment plan, India is set to see its highest addition in National Highways in 2022-23, adding 25,000 kilometers as part of the ambitious, a Rs 100 trillion plan for multi-modal connectivity, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman lined up in her Budget 2022 speech on Tuesday.

The current expansion plan is expected to help the faster movement of people and goods. Around Rs 20,000 crore will be mobilised through innovative ways of financing to complement the public resources, Sitharaman added. The rise in addition of national highways is compared to 13,327 km of roads constructed in 2020-21 and 10,237 km in 2019-20. During the financial year 2021-22, around 3,824 km are added till September. In 2020-21, the construction of roads per day had increased to 36.5 per cent as against 28 km in 2019-20.