Bharatmala

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The Bharatmala Pariyojna (lit. 'India garland project') is a project in India implemented by Government of India. It is slated to interconnect 550 District Headquarters (from the current 300) through a minimum four-lane highway by raising the number of corridors to 50 (from the current six) and move 80% of freight traffic (40% currently) to national highways by interconnecting 24 logistics parks, 66 inter-corridors of total 8,000 km (5,000 mi), 116 feeder routes of total 7,500 km (4,700 mi) and seven northeast multi-modal waterway ports. The project also includes the development of tunnels, bridges, elevated corridors, flyovers, overpasses, interchanges, bypasses, and ring roads, to provide the shortest, jam-free and optimized connectivity to multiple places. It is a centrally-sponsored and funded road and highways project of the Government of India. This ambitious umbrella programme subsumed all existing Highway Projects including the flagship National Highways Development Project (NHDP...

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