Road & Rail

Network Growth in
India to support
Logistics
 National Highway growth in last 10 years

160000
140995 The total length of National Highway has increased from
140000 136440
132500 76818 km in 2012 to 140995 in 2022, an increase of almost
120493 100% in last 10 years.
120000

97991 101011
100000 91287
79116
80000 76818 India’s capital expenditure as a percentage of GDP increased
from 1.7% in 2014 to nearly 2.9% in 2022-23.
60000

40000

Current Logistics cost in India is currently at 13-14 % of GDP,

20000 which govt. intends to bring down to 10% [ Global average is
8%] in next few years and to achieve that it has come up with
0 National Logistics Policy
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Dedicated Freight Corridor

The Dedicated freight corridors in India are a network

of broad gauge freight railway lines that solely serve
freight trains, thus making the freight service in India
faster and more efficient.

DFC is a vital initiative under the National Logistics

Policy and is aimed at reducing the cost of logistics
from 15 per cent (approx.) of the country's GDP to 8
per cent by 2030

As of today, 2089 Route KM -- 73.5 per cent of the

DFC has been commissioned
 Expressway – 12 Lane high speed road

Expressway growth in Last 10 years Green field expressways are the highest class of roads
4000 in India designed for 12 lanes wide with speed limit of
120 km/hr.
3500

3000

2500 Some of the key projects under this initiatives are ,

Delhi - Mumbai Expressway, Mumbai - Nagpur, Ganga
2000 Expressway, Ahmedabad – Dholera, Raipur
Vishakhapatnam
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1000

500 Govt. of India plans to build number of high speed

0 expressway roads in next 5 years to connect all
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