NEW DELHI: Six-lane highways, speed radars and new expressways marked key way points as the Union Budget made the \u201chighest ever\u201d budget outlay of Rs1.18 lakh crore for road transport and highway ministry for 2021-22, an increase of nearly 18% than what it is estimated to spend by March.
\nThe higher allocation came amid the ministry\u2019s target to build a record 11,000km NHs during the current financial year.
\nThe NHAI will also be allowed to raise Rs 65,000 crore from the market. \u201cI am hopeful of taking daily highway construction to 40km by March end,\u201d road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said.
\nWhile giving details of the roadmap for eight major projects, including the Delhi-Mumbai, Bengaluru\u2013Chennai, Delhi-Dehradun, Kanpur-Lucknow and Delhi-Katra expressways, FM Nirmala Sitharaman said all new four and six-lane highways will have advanced traffic management systems with speed radars, variable message sign boards and GPS enabled recovery vans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Six-lane highways, speed radars and new expressways marked key way points as the Union Budget made the \u201chighest ever\u201d budget outlay of Rs1.18 lakh crore for road transport and highway ministry for 2021-22, an increase of nearly 18% than what it is estimated to spend by March. The higher allocation came amid the ministry\u2019s target to build a record 11,000km NHs during the current financial year. The NHAI will also be allowed to raise Rs 65,000 crore from the market. \u201cI am hopeful of taking daily highway construction to 40km by March end,\u201d road transport and highways minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}