Udaipur is one of the 28 cities that have been identified for construction of a ring road under the Bharatmala project to unclog traffic in various cities across India. 45 bypasses have also been planned under the project.

Ring roads have been planned in Udaipur, Bengaluru, Pune, Sambalpur, Madurai, Indore, Dhule, Raipur, Shivpuri, Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Gurugram, Surat, Patna, Lucknow, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Chitradurga, Amravati (AP), Sagar, Solapur, Jaipur, Belgaum, Nagpur, Agra, Kota, Dhanbad and Ranchi.

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday presented a blueprint to the media a day after the Union Cabinet approved Phase I of Bharatmala Pariyojana.

According to MoRTH Secretary Yudhvir Singh Malik, the stretches have been identified after scientific study of traffic pattern of all the identified ring roads and bypasses all over the country.

Gadkari said that the Ministry has finalised the proposals to construct 28 new ring roads. A total of around 600 projects have been identified across the components for Bharatmala which is a new umbrella programme for the highways sector that focuses on optimising the efficiency of road traffic movement across the country by bridging critical infrastructure gaps.

With this projects, India will have “world-class roads on par with the US and Germany” and special emphasis has been accorded to providing quality roads on borders adjoining China and Pakistan, besides far-flung tribal areas. “The entire programme will be transparent, corruption-free with full emphasis on quality. Each and every work will be through electronic tenders and the quality of highways would be such that they would see no potholes for the next 100 years,” Gadkari said.

Gadkari said, “The Bharatmala project is the biggest ever infrastructural project taken in the country.” While further talking about it, he added, “Bharatmala will lead to significant improvements in road safety and save lives.”

Adapted from article that first appeared in The Pioneer