Bharatmala

Size of Indian highway network India's 6,617,100 km ( 4,111,675 mi) road network is the largest in the world, of which only 2% (~1,60,000 km) are national highways (NHs) carrying 40% road traffic. Benefits of Bharatmala Bharatmala will significantly boost highway infrastructure: • 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. == Project components ==

Components summary Bharatmala components or predecessors • Completed national road development connectivity older scheme • Golden Quadrilateral, • Subsumed in Bharatmala • National Highways Development Project • National Corridors • Diamond Quadrilateral • North-South and East-West Corridor • Char Dham Highway • India-China Border Roads, partially subsumed in Bharatmala and partially under Ministry of Defence National Highways Development Project (NHDP) NHDP project covers , including completed, under construction and left for award (as of May 2017). The uncompleted projects under NHDP will also be subsumed in Bharatmala. New ring roads in Bharatmala include: • Agra • Amaravati • Belgaum • Bengaluru • Berhampur • Bhubaneswar • Chitradurga • Delhi • Dhanbad • Dhule • Gurugram • Indore • Jabalpur • Jaipur • Kota • Lucknow • Madurai • Nagpur • Patna • Pune • Raipur • Ranchi • Sagar • Sambalpur • Shivpuri • Solapur • Surat • Thiruvananthapuram • Udaipur • Varanasi • Vijayawada 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). 66 inter-corridors (IC) & 116 feeder routes (FR) were identified for Bharatmala. List of national economic corridors List of 44 economic corridors (EC): • EC-1: Mumbai-Kolkata • EC-2: Mumbai-Kanyakumari • EC-3: Amritsar-Jamnagar • EC-4: Kandla-Sagar • EC-5: Agra-Mumbai • EC-6: Pune-Vijayawada • EC-7: Raipur-Dhanbad • EC-8: Ludhiana-Ajmer • EC-9: Surat-Nagpur • EC-10: Hyderabad-Panaji • EC-11: Jaipur-Indore • EC-12: Solapur-Nagpur • EC-13: Sagar-Varanasi • EC-14: Kharagpur-Siliguri • EC-15: Raipur-Visakhapatnam • EC-16: Delhi-Lucknow • EC-17: Chennai-Kurnool • EC-18: Indore-Nagpur • EC-19: Chennai-Madurai • EC-20: Mangaluru-Raichur • EC-21: Tuticorin-Cochin • EC-22: Solapur-Bellary-Gooty • EC-23: Hyderabad-Aurangabad • EC-24: Delhi-Kanpur • EC-25: Tharad-Phalodi • EC-26: Nagaur-Mandi Dabwali • EC-27: Sagar-Lucknow • EC-28: Sambalpur-Paradeep • EC-29: Amreli-Vadodra • EC-30: Godhra-Khargone • EC-31: Sambalpur-Ranchi • EC-32: Bengaluru-Malappuram • EC-33: Raisen-Pathariya • EC-34: Bengaluru-Mangaluru • EC-35: Chittaurgarh-Indore • EC-36: Bilaspur-New Delhi • EC-37: Solapur-Mahabubnagar • EC-38: Bengaluru-Nellore • EC-39: Ajmer-Udaipur • EC-40: Sirsa-Delhi • EC-41: Sirohi-Beawar • EC-42: Jaipur-Agra • EC-43: Pune-Aurangabad • EC-44: North East Corridor 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). • Ambala • Bengaluru • Bathinda • Bhopal • Chennai • Cochin • Coimbatore • Guwahati • Hisar • Hyderabad • Indore • Jagatsinghpur • Jaipur • Jammu • Kandla • Kolkata • Kota • Nagpur • Nashik • Panaji • Patna • Pune • Raipur • Rajkot • Solan • Sundargarh • Valsad • Vijayawada • Visakhapatnam • North Gujarat • Ahmedabad • Vadodara • South Gujarat • Surat • Bharuch • North Punjab • Jalandhar • Amritsar • Gurdaspur • Mukerian • South Punjab • Ludhiana • Sangrur • Patiala • Delhi-NCR • Delhi • Faridabad (IMT Manesar) • Narnaul (Nangal Choudhary IMHL) • Ghaziabad • MMR • Mumbai • Mumbai suburbs • Jnpt • Mumbai Port • Thane • Raigad International economic corridors India's neighbourhood • East of India: India's Act East policy connectivity will be further developed in the Bharatmala routes (slide 22) with several dozen 24 Integrated check posts (ICPs), transit through Bangladesh to improve Northeast India, and integrating Bangladesh–Bhutan–Nepal-Myanmar–Thailand BIMSTEC corridors. • Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM Economic Corridor) • Mekong-Ganga Cooperation • BIMSTEC projects, Bay of Bengal informal Economic Corridor • Bangladesh Bhutan India Nepal Initiative (BBIN) • India-Myanmar Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project • India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway • Great Nicobar Island Development Project, included International Container Transshipment Port, Galathea Bay • Thai Canal • Sabang strategic port development, India-Indonesia project • Dawei Port Project in Myanmar • West of India • India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMAC) Asia-wide • Asian Highway Network • ASEAN–India Free Trade Area • Trans-Asian Railway • Hippie trail, defunct road route from UK to India-Singapore-Australia Global • Build Back Better World, G7 rival to China's "One Belt, One Road" • Free and Open Indo-Pacific • With Russia • East of India: Chennai–Vladivostok Maritime Corridor • West of India: International North–South Transport Corridor, included Chabahar Port ==Finance==

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. Bharatmala Phase-I funds • Total phase-I budget for 5 years Bharatmala project from 2017 to 2022, ==Implementation phases==

NHIDCL National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited 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. Phases The plan envisages the construction of roads, including of additional highways and roads across the country, apart from an existing plan of building of new highways by the National Highway Authority of India. from the current 42% or 300 districts connected to NH (dec 2017). Phase-II: 48,877 km Multimodal logistics parks. It will make current corridors more effective & will improve connectivity with north east and leverage synergy with inland waterways. Multi-modal logistics parks will provide seamless cargo transfer between Railways cargo, Inland Waterways, Air cargo, Dedicated Freight Corridors, Access-Controlled Expressways, National Highways, State Highways in a Hub and Spoke model. ==See also==