Over 2 lakh km national highways to be built by 2037, length of high-speed roads to rise 10x
India plans to fast-track the building of national highways, including high-speed access-controlled highways, to create a world-class road network by 2037.
The goal is to increase the length of national highways to over 200,000 km and reduce road accidents by 95% over the next 25 years to enhance efficiency and reduce logistic costs as it seeks to become a developed nation by 2047, a senior government official said. The plan is to increase the national highways length to over 200,000 kilometres from 146,000 km now with over 10-fold jump in access-controlled highways to 50,000 km from 4,000 km over the next 13 years and reduce road