MoRTH | Status on Green Highways in India

April 11, 2022 PIB

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Green Highways Policy-2015
Green Highways Policy-2015

Total 22 Greenfield highways (5 Expressways comprising length of 2,485 km with cost of Rs. 1,63,350 crore & 17 Access Controlled Highways comprising length of 5,816 km with cost of Rs. 1,92,876 crore) have been envisaged for development.  Three sections of the Delhi Mumbai Expressway i.e. Delhi – Dausa – Lalsot (Jaipur) (214 km), Vadodara – Ankelshwar (100 km) and Kota – Ratlam Jhabua (245 km) are planned for completion by March, 23. The details of 22 Greenfield Highways are as under:

 

Sno Corridor Name Total

Length

(in Km)

 Length in

Implementation stage

(in Km)

 Completed length

(in Km)
Expressw ay
1 Delhi – Mumbai EXP 1,382 1,139 529
1.A Delhi – Vadodara 845 812 425
1.B Vadodara – Mumbai 446 267 97
1.C Delhi – Faridabad – Sohna 90 60 8
2 Ahmedabad – Dholera 109 109 0
3 Bengaluru – Chennai 262 45 0
4 Delhi – Amritsar – Katra 669 93 0
5 Kanpur – Lucknow EXP 63 0 0
Access Controlled Highways
6 Ambala – Kotputli 313 313 303
7 Amritsar – Bhatinda – Jamnagar 917 762 398
7.a Amritsar to Bhatinda 155 0 0
7.b Sangariya to Santalpur 762 762 398
8 Raipur – Vishakhapatnam 465 57 0
9 Hyderabad Vishakhapatnam 222 59 40
10 UER II 75 75 0
11 Chennai – Salem 277 0 0
12 Chittor Thatchur 116 0 0
13 Bangalore Ring Road 280 80 28
14 Delhi – Saharanpur – Dehradun 220 33 0
15 Durg Raipur Arang 92 0 0
16 Hyderabad – Raipur 330 0 0
17 Surat – Nashik –

Ahmednagar – Solapur

 711 79 0
18 Solapur – Kurnool – Chennai             337 39 36
19 Indore – Hyderabad 687 377 242
20 Kharagpur – Siliguri 235 0 0
21 Kota Indore (Garoth to Ujjain) 135 0 0
22 Nagpur – Vijayawada 405 95 39
  Total 8,301 3,355 1,615

 

Out of 8,301 km length, 4,946 km is in different stages such as awarded (Appointed date not declared), bidding stage and DPR stage.

Blackspots are identified for undertaking immediate short term measures for mitigation and long term measures for permanent rectification. As per information available with the Ministry, short term measures have been taken on almost all Black spots and long term measures have been taken on 3385 Black spots up to February, 2022. Ministry has taken following steps to rectify all Black spots through its implementing agencies i.e. NHAI, NHIDCL and NH wings of State PWDs:-

 

i.          To carry out all stage (Design, construction, and operation) road safety audits for all

National Highways; ii.          Provision of Rumble strips or bar markings at the approaches of junctions on NHs;

  1. Provision of Speed Limit signs at desired locations of NHs network;
  2. Provision of Speed breakers and associated signage on side roads;
  3. Provision of amber beacons for traffic approaching a junction as per IRC;
  4. Installation of Crash barriers on High embankments and in hilly terrain;
  5. Encouraging engineers for certificate course in road safety audit for which MOUs are signed   with   IITs   and   other    leading    technical    education/ research  institutions;
  6. Developed a Black spot MIS portal where details of all blackspots, ids, photographs, and rectification status and post rectification feedback shall be collected and monitored.

This information was given by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

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