Cabinet note for Vision 2047 highway plan may be revised
₹20-trillion plan envisages construction of more than 75,000 km of highways over the next 15 years, including 50,000 km of access-controlled highways or expressways, one of the two persons said on condition of anonymity. As of now, about 4,000 km of centrally funded access-controlled highways have been built. Queries sent to MoRTH remained unanswered till press time.
Apart from long-term goals for MoRTH, the plan will also break down the target into five-year and one-year targets, and specify the kind of work to be done each year and the likely investments required. The Vision 2047 plan would set specific targets for developing green highways with infrastructure that would support green mobility on Indian roads. The first such initiative is being introduced in the under-construction Delhi-Mumbai expressway project.
A green highway would have EV charging points, battery swapping stations, tree lining on both sides of the highway, and shrubs in the median. The Vision 2047 plan would also provide a roadmap for making Indian roads safer, having policy prescription for adoption of latest technology to map accident-prone points on highways and undertake rectification work. It will also include proposals for the introduction of a nationwide cashless treatment scheme to cater to road accident victims.
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