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A. NATIONAL HIGHWAYS: CONSTRUCTION & ACHIEVEMENTS

1. Road Network in the Country: India has about 66.71 lakh km of road network, which is the second largest in the world.

The length of various categories of roads is as under:

• National Highways: 1,46,145 km
• State Highways: 1,79,535 km
• Other Roads: 63,45,403 km

National Highways play a very important role in the economic and social development of the country by enabling efficient movement of freight and passengers and improving access to markets. MoRTH and its implementing agencies have undertaken multiple initiatives in last 9 years to augment the capacity of the National Highway infrastructure in India.

 

2. National Highway Network

• National Highway (NH) network increased by ~60% from 91,287 km in 2014 to 1,46,145 km in year 2023

 

 

The length of National Highways (year-wise) is tabulated below:

Sr. No.	Year	Length (in km)
1	2013-14	91,287
2	2014-15	97,830
3	2015-16	1,01,010
4	2016-17	1,14,158
5	2017-18	1,26,500
6	2018-19	1,32,500
7	2019-20	1,32,995
8	2020-21	1,38,376
9	2021-22	1,41,345
10	2022-23	1,45,240
11	2023-24(up to Nov 2023)	1,46, 145

                                (Source- “Basic Road Statistics of India)

Length Constructed: MoRTH constructed 5248 km of National Highways. (Provisional figures).

The pace of National Highways (NH) construction has increased consistently between 2014-15 and 2023-24 due to the systematic push through corridor-based National Highway development approach.

Sr. No.		Year	Construction (in km)	Construction (in km / day)
1		2014-15	4,410	12.1
2		2015-16	6,061	16.6
3		2016-17	8,231	22.6
4		2017-18	9,829	26.9
5		2018-19	10,855	29.7
6		2019-20	10,237	28.1
7		2020-21	13,327	36.5
8		2021-22	10,457	28.6
9	2022-23		10,331	28.3
10	2023-24(up to Nov 2023)		5,248	-

 

2. Bharatmala Pariyojana: The Bharatmala Pariyojana was launched with the primary focus on optimizing the efficiency of the movement of goods and people across the country. Phase I of the Bharatmala Pariyojana approved in October 2017, focuses on bridging critical infrastructure gaps through development of 34,800 km of National Highways. The Pariyojana emphasised a “corridor based National Highway development” to ensure infrastructure symmetry and consistent road user experience. The key components of the Pariyojana are Economic Corridors development, Inter-corridor and feeder routes development, National Corridors Efficiency Improvement, Border, and International Connectivity Roads, Coastal and Port Connectivity Roads and एक्सप्रेशवाय.