The Cabinet on Friday approved eight National High-Speed Road Corridor Projects of 936 km length at a total cost of Rs 50,655 crore. The projects are expected to improve logistics efficiency, reduce congestion, and enhance connectivity across the country.
Implementing these projects will generate an estimated 44.2 million person days of direct and indirect employment, the government said in a statement.
The corridor approach has led to the identification of a network of 50,000 km of High-Speed Highway Corridors through a scientific transport study based on GSTN and toll data to support India’s transformation into a $30 trillion economy by 2047, it said.
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The 88-km six-lane Agra-Gwalior National High-Speed Corridor will be developed on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) mode as a fully access-controlled corridor at an estimated cost of Rs 4,613 Crore. It will reduce the distance between Agra and Gwalior by 7% and the travel time by 50%, thereby bringing in a substantial reduction in logistics cost.
The four-lane 231 km Kharagpur-Moregram National High-Speed Corridor will be developed in Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) at a cost of Rs 10,247 crore. The new corridor will provide efficient connectivity for traffic between states such as West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh etc. on one end and North-Eastern part of the country on the other.
The 214 km six-lane Tharad – Deesa – Mehsana – Ahmedabad National High-Speed Corridor will be developed in BOT mode at a cost of Rs 10,534 crore. The corridor will provide connectivity between two key National Corridors in the state of Gujarat, viz., Amritsar – Jamnagar Corridor and Delhi – Mumbai Expressway, thereby providing seamless connectivity for the freight vehicles originating from industrial regions of Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan to the major ports in Maharashtra.
The 68 km four-lane Ayodhya Ring Road will be developed in Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) at an estimated cost of Rs 3,935 crore. The Ring Road will reduce congestion on National Highways passing through the city, thereby enabling fast movement of pilgrims visiting the Rama Mandir.
The 137-km four-lane section between Pathalgaon and Gumla of Raipur-Ranchi National Highspeed Corridor will be developed in HAM with an investment of Rs 4,473 crore to enhance connectivity between mining areas in Gumla, Lohardaga, Raigarh, Korba and Dhanbad and industrial and manufacturing zones located in Raipur, Durg, Korba, Bilaspur, Bokaro, and Dhanbad.
The 47 km six-lane Kanpur Ring Road will be developed in Engineering, Procurement and Construction Mode (EPC) at a total capital cost of Rs 3,298 crore. The Ring Road will enable segregation of long-distance traffic on the key National Highways, improving logistics efficiency for freight travelling between Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
The 121 km four-lane Northern Guwahati Bypass and Widening/Improvement of Existing Guwahati Bypass will be developed in BOT mode with an investment of Rs 5,729 crore in three sections.
The 30km eight-lane Elevated Nashik Phata – Khed Corridor near Pune be constructed on BOT at an estimated cost of Rs 7,827 crore.
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