India's US$100 billion highway investment

India intends to continue its massive investment in highway spending. Predictions for the next five years say that up to US$100 billion will be spent on road building in the country in the coming five years. The Ministry for Road Transport and Highways plans to build 35,000km of highways, with 60% being provided by the Government budget and 40% from the private sector. The Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways will open up tendering for nine highway projects. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI
May 29, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
RSSIndia intends to continue its massive investment in highway spending. Predictions for the next five years say that up to US$100 billion will be spent on road building in the country in the coming five years. The 1143 Ministry of Road Transport and Highways plans to build 35,000km of highways, with 60% being provided by the Government budget and 40% from the private sector. The Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways will open up tendering for nine highway projects. The National Highways Authority India (NHAI) has received bids from 13 companies for the 570km link Gujarat and Rajasthan. The highway will connect Kishangarh in Rajasthan to Ahmedabad in Gujarat through Udaipur. Meanwhile a number of projects will help links to a port in neighbouring Bangladesh. New bridge and road infrastructure will connect to access to Bangladesh's Chittagong Port.

Plans are in hand for a new bridge crossing the Feni River in India's Tripura state connecting the town of Sabroom in Tripura with Ramgarh in southeastern Bangladesh. The existing two-lane Agartala-Sabroom national highway will be upgraded and widened with four lanes and two in either direction. Approval has been given by the NHAI). The $150.8 million project to upgrade the 78km Krishnanagar-Baharampore link West Bengal has also been approved by India's Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure. This road links India's northeastern states as well as neighbouring nations such as Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. And the state government in Kerala plans to spend $214.8 million on road projects in Kochi. The projects will include building three flyovers, six railway over-bridges and 19 major road projects.
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