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New Delhi : The Government of India had approved a plan for constructing 1,000 km of Expressways under NHDP Phase-VI at a cost of Rs 16,680 crore on DBFOT basis.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs recently approved the Bharatmala Pariyojana Programme under which Expressway projects (Ahmedabad-Dholera, Vadodara-Mumbai, Delhi-Meerut, Kanpur-Lucknow, Chennai-Bangalore, Delhi-Amritsar-Katra & Delhi-Jaipur) measuring an aggregate length 1,837 km are envisaged to be developed, according to a PIB release.
Out of these, 800 km Expressways is to be implemented in Phase-I of Bharatmala Pariyojana for which an outlay of Rs 40,000 crores has been approved. In addition to the above, the Government had also approved one more expressway namely Eastern Peripheral Expressway for a length of 135 km the construction of which is in progress. The Eastern Peripheral Expressway and Delhi-Meerut Expressway are currently under construction.
This information was given by Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Chemical & Fertilizers Mansukh L Mandaviya in a written reply in Lok Sabha on February 8, 2018.