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3.3 The National Highways system has various deciencies such as capacity constraints,
inadequate pavement crust, poor geometrics and lack of safety features. Improvement of
National Highways is undertaken by way of widening and strengthening of existing
highways, reconstruction / widening of bridges and construction of bypasses after
prioritizing the works within available resources. While the Government is providing
increasing budgetary allocation for highway sector, it has not been possible to allocate
sufcient funds for maintenance of National Highways. The road development programme
needs concerted efforts in the form of mobilization of funds from other sources along with
increasing budgetary allocation as private sector involvement is depleting in recent years.
3.4 Development and Maintenance of National Highways:
The Government is implementing Bharatmala and National Highways Development Project
(NHDP), the largest Highways Project ever undertaken in the country since 2000. The
Bharatmala and NHDP is mainly being implemented by National Highways Authority of
India (NHAI).
3.5 Bharatmala Pariyojna Phase-I:
Phase-I of Bharatmala Pariyojana includes development of following schemes :

Length Cost (Rs.

Sr. No. Scheme (km) crore)
1. Economic Corridors 9,000 120,000
2. Inter-Corridors & feeder roads 6,000 80,000
3. National Corridor Efciency improvement 5,000 100,000
4. Border & International connectivity roads 2,000 25,000
5. Coastal & port connectivity roads 2,000 20,000
6. Expressways 800 40,000
Sub Total 24,800 385,000
7. Ongoing Projects, including NHDP* 10,000 150,000
Total 34,800 535,000
*-Balance works under various phases of NHDP have been fully subsumed under the Bharatmala
Pariyojana. Balance works under NH(O), SARDP-NE, EAP & LWE schemes would continue under
relevant schemes

3.6 Sources of funding for Bharatmala Phase-I

The Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I is to be funded from Cess collected form Petrol & Diesel
(as per Central Road Fund Act, 2000 amended by the Finance Act from time to time), amount

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