India has national highways spanning 146,145 km: Govt

August 3, 2023: The national highways (NHs) network in the country has expanded from about 132,995 kilometre (km) in March 2020 to about 146,145 km at present, data available with the road and transport ministry show.

“NHs projects in about 36,071 km have been taken up during the last three years, including NHs projects in about 2,709 km taken up in Uttar Pradesh. About 34,115 km length of NHs has been constructed during the last three years, including 2,383 km constructed in Uttar Pradesh,” it said.

In a statement issued on August 2, the ministry said many schemes were implemented for the development of the national highways in the country such as the Bharatmala Pariyojana, the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for the North-East Region (SARDP-NE), the Special Programme for development of Roads in Left Wing Extremism affected Area (LWE) and the Externally Aided Projects (EAPs).

National highway stretches not covered under any of the above schemes are taken up for development under the national highway original works, depending upon traffic density, condition of road, inter-se priority and availability of funds, it said.

Development of national highways was taken up through executing agencies like the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. (NHIDCL), the Border Roads Organization (BRO), the National Highways Logistics Management Limited (NHLML) and state governments, the ministry informed, adding that the majority of the expenditure were incurred by the NHAI and the NHIDCL.

Year-wise details of funds allocated and expenditure incurred / funds released for development of NHs during each of the last three years under Schemes / Agencies:

Amount in Rs. Crore
Sl. No.	Schemes/Agency	2020-21		2021-22		2022-23
Sl. No.	Schemes/Agency	Alloc.	Expd.	Alloc.	Expd.	Alloc.	Expd.
1	National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Investment	23,850	23,850	36,210	36,210	110,850	110,850
2	Toll remittances – NHAI	11,500	11,500	12,670	12,670	18,006	18,006
3	NH(O) – NHAI	2,833	2,833	16,143	16,143	17,203	17,203
4	Monetisation of NHs – NHAI	10,250	7,262	13,000	5,000	10,000	10,000
5	IEBR / Borrowings by NHAI	65,000	65,036	65,000	65,150	1,000	798
6	Project based Financing by NHAI	9,731	9,731	14,006	14,006	15,000	9,824
7	InvIT by NHAI			7,350	7,350	10,000	2,850
8	National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. (NHIDCL) under NH(O)	6,568	6,568	7,079	7,079	11,083	11,083
9	Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for North-East Region (SARDP-NE) including Arunachal Package$	4,540	4,513	4,825	4,782	4,860	4,609
10	Special Programme for development of Roads in Left Wing Extremism affected Area (LWE) including Development of Vijayawada-Ranchi Road	425	378	332	329	372	362
11	Externally Aided Projects – Head Quarters, NHAI, NHIDCL	1,905	1,905	3,151	3,151	2,028	2,028
12	Bharatmala – BRO, NHIDCL, NHAI			923	923	2,585	2,585
13	NHLML (for MMLPs & Port Connectivity Projects)			100	100	440	440
14	Other Ministries (Railways / Ports, Shipping & Waterways)					446	446
15	Border Roads Organization (BRO)	502	500	352	338	595	595
State/UT wise allocations not made

For Works being executed through State Governments, State / Union Territory (UT) – wise details of funds allocated and expenditure incurred for development of NHs during each of the last three years: –

Amount in Rs. Crore
Sl. No.	States/UTs	2020-21		2021-22		2022-23
Sl. No.	States/UTs	Alloc.	Expd.	Alloc.	Expd.	Alloc.	Expd.
1	Andhra Pradesh	1,846	1,922	2,116	2,101	2,292	2,372
2	Arunachal Pradesh	142	150	310	380	653	673
3	Assam	420	420	350	357	418	408
4	Bihar	2,082	2,170	2,542	2,476	1,705	1,792
5	Chhattisgarh	683	791	648	630	835	852
6	Goa	1,062	726	643	608	811	661
7	Gujarat	730	828	800	810	900	696
8	Haryana	160	143	110	96	100	100
9	Himachal Pradesh	176	182	722	748	883	822
10	Jharkhand	330	301	350	355	370	337
11	Karnataka	1,210	1,224	1,079	1,085	1,576	1,316
12	Kerala	470	525	331	305	200	189
13	Madhya Pradesh	1,750	1,958	1,306	1,255	752	756
14	Maharashtra	9,849	9,226	6,099	6,145	4,525	4,626
15	Manipur	147	145	130	124	105	94
16	Meghalaya	17	19	60	69	65	58
17	Mizoram	91	89	125	125	50	49
18	Nagaland	355	308	364	346	245	248
19	Odisha	601	676	755	768	998	943
20	Punjab	820	675	528	501	480	374
21	Rajasthan	842	911	836	846	1,456	1,459
22	Sikkim	5	4	45	40	100	91
23	Tamil Nadu	716	618	1,200	1,151	1,180	1,192
24	Telangana	1,000	1,015	970	886	1,000	853
25	Tripura	105	100	125	129	100	100
26	Uttar Pradesh	1,715	1,798	1,265	1,329	1,984	2,008
27	Uttarakhand	960	1,039	665	654	600	585
28	West Bengal	713	751	593	532	809	917
29	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	1	0	1	0	1	0
30	Chandigarh	1	0	1	0	1	0
31	Dadar & Nagar Haveli	25	43	32	30	40	26
32	Daman & Diu	25	43	32	30	40	26
33	Delhi	92	50	98	58	75	57
34	Jammu & Kashmir	70	52	90	68	390	101
35	Ladakh	20	17	11	0	3	0
36	Puducherry	21	19	3	1	50	51
37	Other projects and adjustments under NH(O) / First come first served	-303	–	-206	–	-734	–

(Source: PIB)

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