NHAI plans to complete 7500-km-long 22 new expressways worth 3.10 lakh crore by 2025

January 16, 2020: To decongest major cities in the country, National Highways Authority of India wants to complete 22 greenfield expressways which will have a length of 7500 kilometres and require Rs 3.10 lakh crore investment by 2025. 

“Of the 7,500 km new roads, NHAI plans to build six expressways of 2,250 km, entailing an investment of '1.45 lakh crore, while another 16 greenfield corridors with an aggregate length of 5,250 km will require an investment of Rs 1.65 lakh crore,” reports Economic Times.

While the work for Delhi – Mumbai Expressway has already begun, NHAI is also planning for expressways in Ahmedabad-Dholera, Delhi-Amritsar-Katra, Chennai-Bengaluru, Kanpur-Lucknow, Bangalore Ring Road, Amritsar-Bhatinda-Jamnagar, Hyderabad-Raipur, and Nagpur-Vijayawada routes.