Question : NHAI Proposal for Roads in Uttar Pradesh

(a) whether the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Standing Committee on Finance has formulated any proposal to improve the condition of roads in Uttar Pradesh and if so, the details thereof, district-wise;

(b) whether the Government has identified the national highways in Uttar Pradesh where movement of trucks often leads to heavy traffic jam and if so, the details thereof, district-wise;

(c) the number of highways selected for conversion of two lane roads into four lane to provide relief to the people from traffic jams during the last four years till date;

(d) the number of national highways widened in the country especially in Uttar Pradesh during the last three years; and

(e) whether the Government proposes to include the small highways in the national highway network, if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

THE MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
(SHRI NITIN JAIRAM GADKARI)

(a) to (e) A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (e) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 334 ON 3RD JANUARY, 2019 ASKED BY SHRI BHARAT SINGH, SHRI AJAY MISRA TENI REGARDING ‘NHAI PROPOSAL FOR ROADS IN UTTAR PRADESH’
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(a) to (e) Development / upgradation of National Highways passing through various districts is a continuous process and projects for the same are taken up from time to time depending upon their inter-se priority and availability of funds. Under the Bharatmala Pariyojana programme, various measures to remove heavy traffic jam / congestion have been envisaged such as ring roads, bypasses, grade separator structures etc. at 219 locations in the country which include cities in Uttar Pradesh.

In the last four years, various projects for development / upgradation of National Highways from single / intermediate / 2-lanes up to 4-lane configuration were taken up. The total length of such projects constructed till November, 2018 is approximately 680 kms. Further, during the past three years, development / upgradation of National Highways for an aggregate length of about 23,820 kms has been completed in the country till November, 2018 out of which approximately 1930 kms length was completed in the State of Uttar Pradesh. Inclusion of any road or highway in the National Highway network is done on the basis of fulfilment of criteria including inter-alia, traffic density, connectivity to towns having requisite population, proximity to existing NH network etc. To achieve the objective of corridor-based development, various routes / corridors have been envisaged for development as inter-corridors, feeder routes, border roads, economic corridors, national corridors etc. under Bharatmala Pariyojana programme, through a combination of brown field projects i.e. expansion of existing roads and green field projects i.e. new alignments.

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