NEW DELHI: Cabinet on Wednesday approved extension of a national highway project in Andhra Pradesh and two multi-tracking of railway corridors in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, entailing a total investment of more than Rs 7,000 crore to push infrastructure development in the country.
While the new four-lane 108-km Badvel-Nellore highway project will improve connectivity to Krishnapatnam port in Andhra, the multi-tracking of railway lines - Ratlam-Nagda and Wardha-Balharshah - will decongest East-West and North-South rail corridors, particularly for trains heading towards Mumbai.
Announcing the decisions, I&B minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the four-lane Badvel-Nellore corridor on NH-67 would be taken up on public private partnership mode. This will provide connectivity to crucial nodes in the three industrial corridors of Andhra Pradesh - Kopparthy node on the Vishakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor, Orvakal node on Hyderabad-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor and Krishnapatnam node on Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor. The corridor will reduce the distance to Krishanpatnam port by around 40 km compared to the existing Badvel-Nellore road and cut travel time by an hour.
On the railway expansion projects, Vaishnaw said the 3rd and 4th line on the Ratlam-Nagda route and 4th line on the Wardha-Balharshah route, covering four districts in MP and Maharashtra would increase the existing network of Indian Railways. "Bottlenecks on the Ratlam-Nagda and Wardha-Balharshah routes will be eased, resulting in movement of more passenger trains as the track availability will increase," he said.
Vaishnaw said projects worth more than Rs 4.5 lakh crore had been approved in the transport and infrastructure sector during the third term of Modi government.
While the new four-lane 108-km Badvel-Nellore highway project will improve connectivity to Krishnapatnam port in Andhra, the multi-tracking of railway lines - Ratlam-Nagda and Wardha-Balharshah - will decongest East-West and North-South rail corridors, particularly for trains heading towards Mumbai.
Announcing the decisions, I&B minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the four-lane Badvel-Nellore corridor on NH-67 would be taken up on public private partnership mode. This will provide connectivity to crucial nodes in the three industrial corridors of Andhra Pradesh - Kopparthy node on the Vishakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor, Orvakal node on Hyderabad-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor and Krishnapatnam node on Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor. The corridor will reduce the distance to Krishanpatnam port by around 40 km compared to the existing Badvel-Nellore road and cut travel time by an hour.
On the railway expansion projects, Vaishnaw said the 3rd and 4th line on the Ratlam-Nagda route and 4th line on the Wardha-Balharshah route, covering four districts in MP and Maharashtra would increase the existing network of Indian Railways. "Bottlenecks on the Ratlam-Nagda and Wardha-Balharshah routes will be eased, resulting in movement of more passenger trains as the track availability will increase," he said.
Vaishnaw said projects worth more than Rs 4.5 lakh crore had been approved in the transport and infrastructure sector during the third term of Modi government.
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