Lok Sabha Question No. 544 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-22
Subject: Construction of National Highways
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: Gomati Sai

## MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 544

ANSWERED ON 22 ND  JULY, 2021

## CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

## 544.  SHRIMATI GOMATI SAI:

## Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

सड़क परिवहन औि िाजमार्ग मं त्री

## be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  scheme  of  the  Government  for  construction  of  National Highways (NHs) in the country presently;
- (b)  the  details  of  the  proposals  received  for  construction  of  NHs  in
- the country particularly in Chhattisgarh; and
- (c) the names of the NHs which have been completed during the last three years in Chhattisgarh?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## (SHRI NITIN JAIRAM GADKARI)

- (a) The  Ministry  is  primarily  responsible  for  development  and maintenance  of  National  Highways  (NHs).  The  Ministry  took  up development  of  NHs  /  roads  under  various  phases  of  National Highways  Development  Project  (NHDP),  Special  Accelerated  Road Development  Programme  for  the  North  East  Region  (SARDP-NE) including Arunachal Pradesh Package of Roads, Special Programme for  Development  of  Roads  in  the  Left  Wing  Extremism  (LWE) affected areas, Externally Aided Projects (EAP), National Highways (Original) [NH (O)] scheme, etc. Various phases of NHDP envisaged development of NHs  to 4/6 lane and 2 lane NH  standards, development  of  expressways,  etc.  Development  of  most  of  the roads/  NHs  under  other  schemes  envisages  their  upgradation  to  2 lane NH standards.

The Ministry had taken up detailed review of NHs network with a view to develop the road connectivity to Border areas, development of Coastal roads including road connectivity for NonMajor  ports,  improvement  in  the  efficiency  of  National  Corridors, development  of  Economic  Corridors,  Inter  Corridors  and  Feeder Routes along with integration with Sagarmala, etc., under 'Bharatmala Pariyojana'. Under this proposal, the Ministry identified stretches for development of about 26,200 km length of Economic Corridors, 8,000 km of Inter Corridors, 7,500 km of Feeder Routes, 5,300  km  Border  and  International  connectivity  roads,  4,100  km Coastal and Port connectivity roads, 1,900 km  Expressways, National  Corridor  Efficiency  improvement  by  development  of  ring roads around 28 cities, decongestion of about 125 choke points and 66 congestion points, development of 35 nos. of Multimodal Logistics Parks.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the  proposal  for  investment  approval  for  Phase-I  of  'Bharatmala Pariyojana'  during  its  meeting  held  on  24.10.2017.  'Bharatmala Pariyojana' Phase-I includes development of about 9,000 km length of Economic corridors, about 6,000 km length of Inter-corridor and feeder roads, about 5,000 km length of National Corridors Efficiency improvements inter-alia entailing development of ring roads/ bypasses,  etc.,  for  decongestion  of  choke  points/  congestions points, about 2,000 km length of Border and International connectivity  roads,  about  2,000  km  length  of  Coastal  and  port connectivity  roads,  about  800  km  length  of  Expressways  and balance length of about 10,000 km of roads under NHDP.

- (b) The  details  of  the  proposals  received and  sanctioned  for construction of NHs in the country including those in the State of Chhattisgarh during the financial year 2020-2021 are at Annexure I.
- (c) The details of completed NH projects in last three years in the state of Chhattisgarh are at Annexure - II.

## ANNEXURE- I

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY  TO  PART  (B)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 544 FOR ANSWER ON 22.07.2021 ASKED BY SHRIMATI GOMATI SAI REGARDING CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

Details of the proposals received and sanctioned for construction of NHs  in  the  country  including  those  in  the  State  of  Chhattisgarh during the financial year 2020-2021.

|   Sl. No. | State/ UTs        |   Number |   Length/ (in Km.) |   Sanctione d Cost (Rs. in Crore) |
|-----------|-------------------|----------|--------------------|-----------------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh    |       24 |            513.67  |                          4367.11  |
|         2 | Arunachal Pradesh |        4 |             52.405 |                          1139.12  |
|         3 | Assam             |        9 |            143.075 |                          1224.33  |
|         4 | Bihar             |       18 |            285.183 |                          2707.67  |
|         5 | Chhattisgarh      |       11 |            240.68  |                           868.93  |
|         6 | Goa               |        8 |             39.7   |                           128.66  |
|         7 | Gujarat           |       11 |            150.7   |                           640.58  |
|         8 | Haryana           |        2 |              6.152 |                            55.55  |
|         9 | Himachal Pradesh  |       26 |            315.562 |                          3196.67  |
|        10 | Jammu & Kashmir   |        6 |             90.48  |                           235.47  |
|        11 | Jharkhand         |       13 |            127.93  |                           670.7   |
|        12 | Karnataka         |       17 |            330.325 |                          2785.29  |
|        13 | Kerala            |        6 |             77.5   |                           153.37  |
|        14 | Madhya Pradesh    |       14 |            291.82  |                           726.38  |
|        15 | Maharashtra       |       54 |            829.594 |                          4590.39  |
|        16 | Manipur           |        3 |             92.68  |                           151.24  |
|        17 | Meghalaya         |        7 |             14.69  |                           142.501 |

|   18 | Mizoram       |   1 |   27.98 |    24.07 |
|------|---------------|-----|---------|----------|
|   19 | Nagaland      |   7 | 119.52  | 1006.06  |
|   20 | Odisha        |  15 | 314.17  | 1145.71  |
|   21 | Punjab        |   7 | 110.48  |  382.83  |
|   22 | Rajasthan     |  20 | 488.67  | 2511.6   |
|   23 | Sikkim        |   1 |  11.49  |   29.05  |
|   24 | Tamil Nadu    |  82 | 209.9   | 1445.83  |
|   25 | Telangana     |   7 | 195.6   | 1375.29  |
|   26 | Uttar Pradesh |  15 | 248.893 | 1356.61  |
|   27 | Uttarakhand   |  28 | 231.04  | 1210.17  |
|   28 | West Bengal   |  12 |  92.201 |  237.867 |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY  TO  PART  (C)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 544 FOR ANSWER ON 22.07.2021 ASKED BY SHRIMATI GOMATI SAI REGARDING CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL HIGHWAYS

## Details of completed NH projects in last three years in the state of Chhattisgarh

| S.L . No.   | N.H.No New/Old   | Name of work                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Length (in Km)   |
|-------------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------|
| 2018-19     | 2018-19          | 2018-19                                                                                                                                                                                                      | 2018-19          |
| 1           | 43/78            | Rehabilitation and upgradation of NH-43 (Old NH-78) from km 331.000 to 363.000 (Surajpur to Ambikapur) in the State of Chhattisgarh to two -lanes with paved shoulders under Corridor approach on EPC basis. | 32               |
| 2           | 30/43            | One Time Improvement of Keshkal City portion Stretches from Km 167.00 to Km 170.400                                                                                                                          | 3.40             |
| 3           | 30/12A           | One Time Improvement of Poindi City from existing Km 230.330 to Km 232.375                                                                                                                                   | 2.05             |
| 4           | 30/12A           | One Time Improvement in urban area of Bodal City from existing Km 224.357 to Km 225.178                                                                                                                      | 0.82             |
| 5           | 30/12A           | One Time Improvement in urban area of Simga City from existing Km 314.712 to Km 317.406                                                                                                                      | 2.69             |
| 7           | 43/78            | One Time Improvement in urban area of Sitapur City from Km 433.900 to Km 437.600                                                                                                                             | 3.40             |
| 8           | 30/43            | Rehabilitation and upgradation of NH-43 from km 180.000 to 241.000 (Bedma to Dahikonda) in the State of Chhattisgarh to two -lanes with paved shoulders under NHDP-IV on EPC basis.                          | 61.17            |
| 9           | 30/43            | Rehabilitation and upgradation of NH-43 from km 241.000 to 298.000 (Dahikonda to Jagdalpur) in the State of Chhattisgarh to two -lanes with paved shoulders under NHDP-IV on EPC basis.                      | 56.90            |
| 10          | 130/200          | 4-Laning of Sargaon-Bilaspur Section of NH-200 (New NH-130) from Km 91+026 to                                                                                                                                | 35.49            |

|         |         | Km 126+525 under EPC Mode                                                                                                                                            |         |
|---------|---------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------|
| 2019-20 | 2019-20 | 2019-20                                                                                                                                                              | 2019-20 |
| 11      | 130/111 | Rehabilitation and up-gradation of NH- 111(New NH-130) from Km 82.5 to Km.163.400 (Katghora to Shivnagar) to two lane with paved shoulder under NHDP-IV on EPC basis | 80.3    |
| 12      | 30/221  | Providing 2-lane Concrete Pavement and Widening of Culvert including construction of new slab culvert from Km. 107.000 to 184.800 = 77.80 Km. of NH-221 (New NH-30)  | 77.8    |
| 13      | 130/200 | 4-Laning of Simga-Sargaon Section of NH-200 (New NH-130) from Km 48+580 to Km 91+026 under EPC Mode                                                                  | 42.46   |
| 2020-21 | 2020-21 | 2020-21                                                                                                                                                              | 2020-21 |
| 14      | 49/200  | Rehabilitation and upgradation of NH-200 from Km. 127.650 to 178.925 (Darrighat to Banari) to 4-lane/2-lane with paved shoulder under NHDP-IV on EPC basis           | 33.187  |

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