NEW DELHI: The highways ministry is likely to award road projects with an aggregate length of around 4,500 km worth Rs 50,000 crores, Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari informed the Parliament on Thursday.
Gadkari in September said that he had asked his department to identify road projects to spur economic activity in the country.
On Thursday, Gadkari said in a written response in the Parliament, “Award of road projects covering a length of 4,471 km with an approximate cost of Rs 50,000 crore has been targeted during the next three months.”
The highways ministry was planning to award road construction projects worth over Rs 500,000 crores over the next three months to boost demand in the construction and automobile sector, Gadkari had said at a press conference in September.
