Country India Key people Nitin Gadkari | Prime Minister Narendra Modi | |
Ministry Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Established 31 July 2015; 18 months ago (2015-07-31) | ||
Bharatmala is a name given to ambitious road and highways project of Modi Government. The project will start 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 Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and right up to the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur and Mizoram.
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Finance
The project would need an investment of around ₹500 billion (US$7.4 billion).
Progress
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has prepared a draft Cabinet note on the ₹2.6 lakh crore (US$39 billion) Bharat Mala project that envisages construction of 25,000 km of roads along India's borders, coastal areas, ports, religious and tourist places as well as over 100 district headquarters.