Bharatmala Programme is one of the biggest highway construction projects in India in history that is aimed at building highways from Gujarat and Rajasthan, move to Punjab and then cover the entire string of Himalayan states - Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand - and then portions of borders of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar alongside Terai, and move to West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and right up to the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur and Mizoram.
Recent Developments Bharatmala 2.0
Bharatmala (1.0)
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Bharatmala bridges critical infrastructure gaps through effective interventions like:
The objective of the program is to achieve optimal resource allocation for a holistic highway development/improvement initiative.
Bharatmala Project Categories
National Corridors Bharatmala will give the country 50 national corridors as opposed to the 6 we have at present. The 44 new economic corridors include Mumbai-Kolkata, Mumbai-Kanyakumari, Amritsar-Jamnagar, Agra- Mumbai, Pune-Vijaywada, Raipur-Dhanbad, Ludhiana-Ajmer, Surat-Nagpur, Hyderabad-Panaji, Jaipur-Indore, Solapur-Nagpur, Sagar-Varanasi, Raipur-Vishakhapatnam, Delhi-Lucknow, Chennai-Madurai, Delhi-Kanpur, Sagar-Lucknow and Sambalpur-Ranchi among others. |
Need for Bharatmala Programme
Programme’s Impact