Nine of 44 economic corridors to be connected via expressways soon

Nine of the 44 economic corridors planned under the Union government’s ambitious Bharatmala scheme will soon be linked through expressways. The government intends to facilitate seamless trade by reducing the distance between connecting cities, in turn saving cost, time, and fuel.

This exercise will be undertaken by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and the National Highways Authority of India.  “Besides building new alignments on the nine economic corridors, optimising existing expansion of roads is also a priority for us,” Road Transport Secretary Y S Malik said here.

The nine corridors include Delhi-Vadodara, Chennai-Salem, Ambala-Kotputli, Amritsar-Jamnagar, and Raipur-Vizag.