Main Target: Construct 41 km a day of highways in 2017-18
Status: Average construction 28 km a day
March 2017: Gadkari talks about a policy to integrate various modes of transport for 50% reduction in logistics costs
Status: Ministry of shipping approves plan to build 34 mega multi-modal logistics parks for Rs 2 lakh crore; full-fledged policy yet to come out
April 2017: Minister says first phase of the 135-km Eastern Peripheral Expressway project to be done by August 2017
Status: Project is about 70% complete and likely to be open later this year
May 2017: Gadkari says Centre to put an electric vehicle policy in place by the end of this year; informal group of ministers submits draft policy to cabinet secretary
Status: In December, a road ministry official says policy at a nascent stage and will take a while
June 2017: Minister says plans on to launch a dedicated international subsidiary of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for projects abroad
Status: Proposal at preliminary stage; NHAI subsidiary unlikely but NHAI takes up international highway construction projects
August 2017: Minister says at least a dozen expressways to be made in 2018; work on three to start in 2017
Status: Government yet to decide alignment of proposed projects
October 2017: Cabinet clears the Bharatmala project to construct 20,000 km of highways connecting west and east at an estimated Rs 7 lakh crore
Phase-I to be undertaken over three-five years; project to cost Rs 5.5 lakh crore; 2018 to be crucial for this ambitious scheme
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