Union Budget 2021: Today, FM Nirmala Sitharaman presented the initially paperless Union Budget for 2021-22. In her price range speech, the minister stated Rs 1,18,101 crore outlay has been offered for the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, of which an quantity of Rs 1,08,230 crore is for capital, the highest ever. According to the minister, performs on 3,500 km of National Highway will be accomplished in Tamil Nadu at Rs 1.03 lakh crore investment, which involves Madurai-Kollam corridor, Chittoor-Thatchur corridor. While in Kerala, 1,one hundred km of National Highway performs will be accomplished at an investment of Rs 65,000 crore such as Mumbai-Kanyakumari corridor’s 600 km section.
Sitharaman stated highway performs on 675 km will be carried out in West Bengal at a expense of Rs 25,000 crore, such as the upgradation of the current Kolkata-Siliguri road. At present, National Highway performs of an estimated quantity of Rs 19,000 crore are in progress in the state of Assam. Moreover, in the coming 3 years, additional performs of more than Rs 34,000 crore covering more than 1300 km National Highways will be carried out in the state. Following are some flagship corridors and other crucial projects that would see considerable activity in the monetary year 2021-22:
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway: The remaining 260 km of this road project will be awarded prior to 31 March 2021.
Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway: 278 km of the expressway will be initiated in the existing fiscal and building will get started in 2021-22.
Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor: In the existing monetary year, 210 km corridor will be initiated. The corridor’s building will get started in 2021-22.
Kanpur-Lucknow Expressway: 63 km of this road project delivering an alternate route to NH-27 will be initiated in the year 2021-22.
Chennai-Salem Corridor: Expressway of 277 km will be awarded and the improvement would get started in 2021-22.
Raipur-Vishakhapatnam: 464 km lengthy highway passing by way of the states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha as nicely as North
Andhra Pradesh will be awarded in the existing monetary year. Construction on this project will get started in 2021-22.
Amritsar-Jamnagar: Construction on this project will get started in the year 2021-22
Delhi-Katra: Development work will get started in 2021-22