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Centre will shell out ₹8000 crore for Telengana highways

  • The length of the national highways across India will be increased from 90,000 km to 2,00,000 km.
  • 1% of the contract’s value will be assigned for the greenery along these newly constructed roads.
Centre will shell out 8000 crore for Telengana Highways

While addressing at the 77th conference of Indian Roads Congress (IRC, Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the Central government has sanctioned a whopping ₹ 8,000 crores for development of national highways across the state of Telengana.

 

Gadkari stressed on the fact that roads are needed for the development of a nation. Secondly, it is also needed to tackle the considerable increase in Vehicular traffic. The Union Shipping Minister admitted that environmental, land acquisition and forest clearances were the major concerns while constructing a highway.

 

Gadkari also said that the length of the national highways across India will be increased from 90,000 km to 2,00,000 km.

 

The Centre has also said that 1% of the contract’s value will be assigned for the greenery along these newly constructed roads.

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