Rs 10 trillion umbrella road project to subsume NHDP

The ambitious Rs 10 lakh crore umbrella programme for roads, Bharatmala, will subsume the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), implemented by the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1998.

This may be one of the last mega projects of the BJP government before it seeks public mandate in 2019, besides being the second-largest highway project after the NHDP that saw development of about 50,000 km of NHs as per global standards.

The Prime Minister's Office, earlier this month, after going through a presentation of the ambitious Bharatmala project has asked for Public Investment Board's (PIB) clearance to the first phase of the project, a government official told

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