The government is working towards expanding the National Highway network to 2 lakh kilometres by 2025, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday.
Addressing an event organised by Indian Roads Congress (IRC), Gadkari also proposed the setting up of ‘Innovation Bank’ for new ideas, research findings and technologies to focus on quality in infrastructure development.
“Our government is dedicatedly working towards expanding the National Highway network to 2 lakh kilometres by 2025,” he said.
The minister pointed out that in the last eight years, the length of National Highways has gone up by more than 50 per cent — from 91,000 km in 2014 to about 1.47 lakh km now.
