The Centre is planning to take over state highways with high-traffic density to develop 4 or 6 lane highways and then recover investments through toll collection within 12-13 years, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday.Addressing an event organised by Association of National Exchanges Members Of India (ANMI), Gadkari said the government is planning to construct a green express highway between Mumbai and Bangalore to reduce journey time to five hours.
“The Ministry of Road Transports and Highways is planning to take over the State Highways with high traffic density from the State Governments for a period of 25 years.”Thereafter, those state highways will be converted into 4 or 6 lane highways and then the Centre will collect toll from those highways,” an official statement said quoting Gadkari.The road transport and highways minister said that as many as 27 green express highways are coming up in the country.
