7 Lakh Crores To Be Spent On Highways In 5 Years

In the next five years, approximately Rs 7 lakh crore will be spent in building and expanding highways and constructing expressways across the country 

Road construction is considered a major employment generator. Sources said around 40,000 km of highways will be expanded till 2022, which includes about 24,800 km covered under Bharatmala programme. According to government estimates, construction of 10,000 km of highways annually has the potential of generating four crore mandays and this can be a weapon to blunt the opposition's allegation that the government has failed to create employment opportunities.

Read more of this in a report by Dipak Dash published in Times of India.....