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The Bharatmala Pariyojana (Template:Literal translation 'India garland project') is a centrally-sponsored and funded Road and Highways project of the Government of India.[1] The total investment for Template:Cvt[2] committed new highways is estimated at Template:INRConvert, making it the single largest outlay for a government road construction scheme (as of December 2017). The project will build highways from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and then cover the entire string of Himalayan territories - 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.[1] Special emphasis will be given on providing connectivity to far-flung border and rural areas including the tribal and backward areas. Bharatmala Project will interconnect 550 District Headquarters (from current 300) through a minimum 4-lane highway by raising the number of corridors to 50 (from current 6) and move 80% freight traffic (40% currently) to National Highways by interconnecting 24 logistics parks, 66 inter-corridors (IC) of total Template:Cvt, 116 feeder routes (FR) of total Template:Cvt and 7 north east Multi-Modal waterway ports.[3]

The ambitious umbrella programme will subsume all existing Highway Projects including the flagship National Highways Development Project (NHDP), launched by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1998.

It is both enabler and beneficiary of other key Government of India schemes, such as Sagarmala, Dedicated Freight Corridors, Industrial corridors, UDAN-RCS, BharatNet, Digital India and Make in India.

Scope

Context

India's 54,82,000 km (3,406,000 mi) road network is second largest in the world, of which only 2% (~1,10,000 km) are national highways (NHs) carrying 40% road traffic.[4] Bharatmala phase-I will raise the NH connection to a total of 80% or 550 districts out of total 718 districts[5] from the current 42% or 300 districts connected to NH (dec 2017).[4] Mapping of Shortest Route for 12,000 routes carrying 90% of the India's freight, commodity-wise survey of freight movement across 600 districts, automated traffic surveys over 1,500+ points across the country, and satellite mapping of corridors to identify upgradation requirements for Bharatmala.[3]

Template:Anchor NHIDCL

National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) was created in 2014 as a fully owned company of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways by the Government of India to expedite construction of National Highway projects with specific focus on Northeast India.[6][7]

Template:Anchor Central Road Fund (CRF)

Central Road Fund (CRF) was created as a non-lapsable fund under the "Central Road Fund Act 2000", by imposing a cess on petrol and diesel, to build and upgrade National Highways, State roads, rural roads, railway under/over bridges etc., and national waterways.[8]

Impact

Bharatmala will significantly boost highway infrastructure:[3]

  • Raise 6 NC corridors to 50 corridors (6 NC and 44 EC)
  • Raise 40% freight to 80% freight on National Highways
  • Raise 300 districts to 550 districts connected by minimum 4-lane highways.

Components

National Highways Development Project (NHDP)

NHDP project covers Template:Cvt, including Template:Cvt completed, Template:Cvt under construction and Template:Cvt left for award (as of May 2017).[9] The uncompleted projects under NHDP will also be subsumed in Bharatmala.[4]

National Corridors (NC)

National Corridors of India (NC) are 6 high volume corridors, including 4 in Golden Quadrilateral and 2 in North–South and East–West Corridors, including Mumbai - Kolkata Highway (NH6), known as East Coast - West Coast Corridor, that carry 35% of India's freight.[4] Lane expansion to 6 to 8 laning, ring roads, bypasses and elevated corridors will be built in Bharatmala to decongest the National Corridors.[4] Logistics Parks will be set up along the NC.[4] Busiest stretches of National Corridors will be converted to the expressways.[4] Template:Cvt inter-corridor and Template:Cvt feeder routes will be built.[4] Additionally, Template:Cvt of border roads and Template:Cvt international highways will be built to connect 6 National Corridors to international trade routes.[4]

National Corridors Efficiency Program (NCEP)

National Corridors Efficiency Program (NCEP) entails Template:Cvt phase-I decongestion of 185 choke points by 34 6-8 laning, 45 bypasses and 28 ring roads of 6 NC.[4][3] [10]

New ring roads in Bharatmala include: Template:Div col

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Economic Corridors

Economic Corridors of India or Industrial Corridors of India, 44 corridors Template:Cvt were identified and Template:Cvt will be taken up in phase-I, they exclude 6 National Corridors, they include:[3] 66 Template:Cvt inter-corridors (IC) & 116 Template:Cvt feeder routes (FR) were identified for Bharatmala.[3][4]

List of 44 economic corridors (EC):[3] Template:Div col

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Logistics parks

Logistics parks entailing 45% of India's freight traffic have been identified to be connected by Bharatmala economic corridors (EC), to develop hub-and-spoke model where hub-to-hub transport can be done with 30 tonne trucks and hub-to-spoke transport can be done with 10 tonne trucks. Currently all transport is point-to-point in 10 tonne trucks (2017).[3][10]

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Northeast India connectivity

North East Economic corridor will connect 7 state capitals and 7 multimodal waterways terminals on Brahmaputra on the bharatmala route (slide 21).[3] Template:Div col

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International connectivity

Template:See also Look-East Connectivity will be further developed in the Bharatmala routes (slide 22).[3]

  • 24 Integrated check posts (ICPs)
  • Transit through Bangladesh to improve Northeast India
  • Integrating Bangladesh–Bhutan–Nepal-Myanmar–Thailand BIMSTEC corridors.

Finance

Implementation phases: 2017-2022

The plan envisages the construction of Template:Cvt roads, including Template:Cvt of additional highways and roads across the country,[2] apart from an existing plan of building Template:Cvt of new highways by the National Highway Authority of India.[13] Bharatmala has synergy with Sagarmala.[14]

Phase 1: 34,800 km by December 2022

The total length of Template:Cvt highways will be constructed under phase-I by December 2022, including Template:Cvt of new highways and another Template:Cvt currently under-construction remaining incomplete under NHDP, compared to 19 years it took to upgrade almost same length of National Highways under NHDP.[15][14][2][16]

Road Type Total Length[4] Phase-I Length[4] Notes
Economic Corridors Template:Cvt Template:Cvt 44 EC corridors exclude 6 NC.[3]
Inter-corridor & feeder Routes Template:Cvt Template:Cvt 66 Template:Cvt inter-corridors (IC) & 116 Template:Cvt feeder routes (FR).[3][4]
National Corridors Efficiency Program Template:Cvt 6-8 laning, bypasses and ring roads of 6 NC.[4]
Border & International connectivity roads Template:Cvt Template:Cvt Template:Cvt of border roads and Template:Cvt to connect 6 national corridors to international trade routes, such as BIMSTEC, MIT and BIN (Bangladesh-India-Nepal).[4]
Coastal & Port connectivity roads Template:Cvt Synergy with Sagarmala.
Expressways Template:Cvt Template:Cvt NC stretches converted to expressway.[4]
Total under Bharatmala Pariyojana Template:Cvt
NH remaining under NHDP Template:Cvt Template:Cvt
Total to be built or upgraded Template:Cvt[2] Template:Cvt

Phase-II: 48,877 km (expected 2024)

Multimodal logistics parks. It will make current corridors more effective & will improve connectivity with north east and leverage synergy with inland waterways

See also

Similar rail development
Similar roads development
Similar ports and river transport development
Similar air transport development
Highways in India
General

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bharat Mala: PM Narendra Modi's planned Template:INRConvert road from Gujarat to Mizoram(29 April 2015).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ministry proposes construction of 20,000 km of roads under Bharat Mala project(9 January 2016).
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Bharatmala presentation
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 BHARATMALA PARIYOJANA, PHASE-I
  5. ↑ [1].
  6. ↑ National Highway Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited to award first project for North-East in October, Economic Times, 9 Oct 9 2014.
  7. ↑ NHIDCL intro.
  8. ↑ What is Central Road Fund (CRF)?, Indian Economy.
  9. ↑ About NHDP | National Highways Authority of India, Government of India. nhai.gov.in. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Investment approval for Phase 1
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 new release
  12. ↑ Govt plans Bharat Mala, a 5,000km road network(30 April 2015).
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Transport ministry seeks Rs 78,000 crore to help fund Bharatmala, Economic Times, 24 Dec 2017.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Nitin Gadkari press conference highlights: BharatMala, SagarMala to be 'varmala' of India, says minister, First Post, 25 Oct 2017.
  15. ↑ First phase of Bharatmala Pariyojana to start by end of 2018: Gadkari. Moneycontrol. Retrieved 2017-10-29.
  16. ↑ Highway construction target for Nitin Gadkari-led Road Transport Ministry: Is 30 km per day too much of a stretch?. The Financial Express(2017-06-05). Retrieved 2017-08-08.

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