Cabinet Approves High-Speed Road Corridors in 7 States

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Friday approved eight major national high-speed road corridor projects in seven states. These high-speed road corridors will be of 936 km length and are to be built at an expenditure of Rs 50,655 crore.

A six-lane Agra-Gwalior high-speed corridor will cost Rs 4,613 A four-lane Kharagpur-Moregram corridor of 231 km is also coming up.

“The six-lane Kanpur Ring Road, a 47-km access-controlled section, will decongest Kanpur, while a 137 km four-lane section between Pathalgaon and Gumla of the Raipur-Ranchi corridor will unlock the growth potential of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said.

According to Vaishnaw, these road projects will generate about 4 crore jobs.

A new corridor between Tharad and Ahmedabad in Gujarat will ensure better port connectivity with reduced logistics costs. The Cabinet also cleared a 68-km four-lane access-controlled Ayodhya Ring Road at a total capital cost of Rs 3,935 crore and an eight-lane elevated flyover corridor section between Pune and Nashik.

These projects have been announced for the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Chhattisgarh and poll-bound Maharashtra and Jharkhand.

The projects include:

6-lane road to reduce travel time between Agra and Gwalior by half

4-lane access-controlled Ayodhya Ring Road

8-lane elevated flyover between Pune and Nashik

Guwahati ring road to facilitate unhindered access to North-East