Development of Road Infrastructure in India

By

Nirmal Jit Singh

Director General (Road Development & Special Secretary)

Ministry of Road Transport & Highways

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Road Network in IndiaTotal Road Length – about 33 lakh km

• National Highways 70,548 km• State Highways 1,28,000 km• Major District Roads 4,70,000 km• Other District / Village Roads 26,50,000 km

The NHs comprises only 2% of the total length of roads, but carries over 40% of the total traffic.

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Present Length of NATIONAL HIGHWAYS      70, 548 km 

The distribution of NHs:

NHAI 20,193 kmState PWDs 42,019 kmB R O   3,992 kmRoads declared as NHs but notyet entrusted 4,344 km

National Highways Network

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Lane wise distribution of National Highways

• 4-Lane 17% (12,053 km)• 2-Lane 53% (37,646 km)• Intermediate/Single Lane 30% (20,849 km)

• Normal distance traveled by trucks in India is 250-300 km per day where as the international norm is 600-800 km per day

• Require immediate capacity augmentation and up gradation with enhanced safety features

• State Govt. are being persuaded to have integrated check posts on Highways.

• NHAI is modernizing the Toll Collection System to cut down waiting time at Toll Plazas.

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Allocation and Expenditure2007-08 2008-09 2009-10S.

No.Scheme 11th Plan

OutlaysAlloc. Exp. Alloc Exp. Alloc

1. NH(Original) 16500 1908.64 1891.07 2154.79* (+50%)

2857.01 3234.55 (+13%)

2. NH works under BRO

2500 649.76 623.93 650 645.80 600

3. NHAI (Investment)

36238 6541.06 6541.06 6972.47 (+6%)

6972.47 8578.45 (+23%)

4. EAP (NHAI) 4454 2220 2220 1894 1894 340

5. Others 12138 1131.54 1063.86 1393.74 980.13 2445

Total 71830 12451 12339.92 13770 (+10%)

13349.41 15198 (+10%)

IEBR 34829 2090 427.41 3700 1630.74 5000

Grand Total 106659 14541 12767.33 17470 (+20%)

14980.15 20198 (+15%)

*- Enhanced to Rs. 2859.79 crore at R.E. which includes Rs. 500 crore additional outlay as a part of financial stimulus package and balance from re-appropriation from other heads

NATIONAL HIGHWAYS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (NHDP)NATIONAL HIGHWAYS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (NHDP)

Phase-I: Mainly the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) connecting major cities of the country namely Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata

Phase-II: North–South and East–West Corridors

Phase-III: Connection of State Capitals and important places to GQ and Corridors

Phase-IV: Improvement of National Highways to 2-lane with paved shoulders

Phase-V: Six laning of National Highways (5,700 km GQ + 825 km other stretches)

Phase-VI: Expressways

Phase-VII: Bypasses, Ring Roads, Flyovers

SEVEN PHASESSEVEN PHASES

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QUALITATIVE CHANGE

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JaipurJaipur-- KishangarhKishangarh –– Service RoadService Road

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1414

1515

ATMS Control Room

Delhi - Gurgaon access controlled expressway-VIEW OF COMPLETED CORRIDOR

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Naini Bridge

Nivedita Bridge

NHDP StatusAwarded contracts under Fully Completed Projects under

EPC BOT (Toll) BOT (Annuity) EPC BOT (Toll) BOT (Annuity)

NHDP Phase

Total Lengt

h(km)

Length

No.ofContra

cts

Length

No.ofContrac

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Length

No.ofContra

cts

Length

No.ofContra

cts

Length

No.ofContra

cts

Length

No.ofContra

cts

I 7498 6572 182 454 9 476 8 5436 152 454 9 476 8

II 6647 4190 118 843 17 864 16 713 14 210 5 85 1

III12109 14.38 1 3043 40 36 1 - - 187 5 - -

V 6500 - - 1035 8 - - - - - - - -

Total 32754 10806 302 4997 70 1376 25 6179 167 821 18 561 9

Steps taken to expedite projects • Regular monitoring of Contracts at various levels • Progress reviews at the level of Chairman, NHAI, Secretary (RT&H)

and Minister (RT&H).• Nodal Officers appointed by State Governments for resolving

problems.• Committee of Secretaries constituted under Cabinet Secretary to

address inter-ministerial and Centre-State issues. • The procedure of issue of land acquisition notifications simplified. • To expedite the construction of ROBs, an officer of the Railways

posted to NHAI to coordinate with Ministry of Railways. • Action taken against non-performing contractors.• Steps taken to improve cash flow problems of contractors by

granting interest bearing discretionary advance at the request of contractor, release of retention money against bank guarantee ofequal amount, deferment of recovery of advances (on interest basis) and relaxation in minimum Interim Payment Certificate (IPC) amount.

Objective – To make visible difference in the Road Programme

• Plan to target completion of 35,000 km of NHs @ 7,000 km per year (20 km per day) during next five years (2009-14)

• Presently only 6,500 km is in progress• To achieve the target, works of about 20,000 km should

be in progress at any point of time• Work Plan formulated by NHAI for awarding 12,000 km

each during 2009-10 and 2010-11• This will provide connectivity to 400 districts in the

country and 300 most populous cities in the country• Projects worth Rs. 3 lakh crore to be taken up during

2009-14• 60 to 70 % on BOT (Toll)

Strategy• Road shows to attract Foreign

Investments • Widening to 6 / 4 / 2 lanes based on

Traffic.• Mode of implementation (e.g. BOT (Toll),

BOT (Annuity) and EPC) be decided concurrently at one go based on feasibility as sequential system of bidding leads to delay

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• Major Initiative covering 9,940 km• Programme in 2 Phases for completion by 2015-16• Presently Phase A for 2,796 km under implementation

– 2,039 km NHs– 757 km State Roads– Cost estimate for Phase A – Rs. 19,827 crore– 1,580 km of roads at an estimated cost of Rs. 5,565 crore approved

for execution– 724 km NH to be improved by NHAI– Balance 492 km approved ‘in-principle’

• Arunachal Pradesh Package approved involving roads of 2,319 km length - 1,472 km is NHs & 847 km is State/GS/Strategic roads-Estimated Cost Rs. 12,513 crore.

• Phase B involves 2 laning of 4,825 km of NHs and 2-laning/ improvements of State roads

• Phase B is approved only for DPR preparation and investment decision is yet to be taken by the Government

SPECIAL ACCELERATED ROAD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR NORTH EAST REGION (SARDP NE)

Special Programme for Development of Roads in the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas

• Approved in Feb 2009• Involves development of about 1,202 km of NHs and

4,363 km of state Roads in LWE affected areas as a special project .

• Estimated to cost - Rs. 7,300 crore. • The projects covers 33 districts in 8 states namely in

Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh.

• Technical and financial sanction for all identified NHs & State Road Projects would be as per stipulated procedure for NHs works.

• Approved Outlay for 2009-10 – Rs. 500 crore.

NHDP-Phase-IV and other Non-NHDP BOT projects for improvement of NH to 2-lane standards

• NHDP-IV-A approved in July, 2008 for up-gradation of 5,000 km of NHs to 2-lane with paved shoulders for a total estimated cost of Rs. 6,950 crore on BOT (Toll) and BOT (Annuity) basis.

• Target for completion of NHDP-IV A- Dec, 2013. • Programme for award of about 7,000 km to 2-lane with

paved shoulders put up on the Ministry’s website.• Feasibility studies proposals invited for 47 nos. of

projects for a total of 6,157 km (35 nos. under NHDP-IV for 4,559 km & 12 nos. under Non-NHDP for 1,598 km).

• Feasibility studies awarded for 29 projects for a total length of 5,021 km.

• Programme being implemented through State PWDs / NHAI / State Govt. Undertakings / directly by the Ministry.

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Maintenance and Repair of National Highways –Available Allocation

Year Requirement as per

norms (Rs. Crore)

Amount provided

(Rs. Crore)

Shortfall (Rs.

Crore)

% Shortfall Expenditure

(Rs. Crore)

2002 – 2003 2200.00 800.00 1400.00 63.64 629.54

2003 – 2004 2200.00 731.74 1468.26 66.74 731.62

2004 – 2005 2480.00 745.56 1734.44 69.94 679.03

2005 – 2006 2480.00 868.10 1611.90 65.00 838.31

2006 – 2007 2480.00 814.38 1665.62 67.16 784.30

2007 – 2008 2280.00 1001.70 1278.30 56.07 981.35

2008 – 2009 2500.00 973.97 1526.03 61.04 969.45

2009 – 2010 2500.00 1060.44 1439.56 57.58 221.72*

Issues for Concern – Allocation is about 35 ~ 40 % of requirement.* - Upto August, 2009

Development of NHs which are not covered under any of the programmes

Sl. No.

Item Length (km)

(i) Total length of NH Network 70,548

(ii) Length of NH under various phases of NHDP as per mandate given by COI

47,054

(iii) Length of NH under Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for North-East Region

5,119

(iv) Development of road (NH) in Left Wing Extremism affected areas

1,320

(v) Length of NH covered for development under various programmes

53,493

(vi) Balance length not covered under any of the programmes [(i)-(v)]

17,055

Development of NHs which are not covered under any of the programmes

• The 11th Plan envisages accelerated efforts to bring NH Network to a minimum of 2-lane standard within the next 10 years and removing existing deficiencies, etc.

• The Ministry has formulated a proposal for taking up a specific programme to improve the remaining 17,055 km of NHs and complete it in 5 years in phased manner commencing from year 2009-10 to year 2013-14.

• Out of the balance length of 17,055 km of NHs -the total length of single / intermediate lane (SL / IL) is about 8,800 km.

• The balance 8,255 km length of NHs are having various types of deficiencies such as missing links, weak 2-lane pavements etc.

Development NHs which are not covered under any of the development programmes – Contd..

• Estimated fund requirement for the programme–Rs. 40,900 crore.

• Proposed funding arrangement – Rs. 10,000 ~ Rs. 15,000 crore by securing World Bank loan.– Rs. 30,900 crore from budgetary allocation.

• Planning Commission has been requested to consider enhancing the outlay under NH(O) for year 2009-10 by Rs. 2,965 crore to enable taking up this programme.

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Formulation of the Master Plan for the National Expressway Network

• The objective is to prepare a National Expressway Network for the horizon year 2022.

• Consultancy Services awarded in December, 2009.• Draft Project Report recommending for a total

Expressway Network of about 17,650 km received in July 2009 hoisted in the Ministry’s Website. State Govts. were requested on 21.8.2009 to offer their views, if any, within 2 weeks.

• Final Report duly considering the States viewpoints to be widely deliberated before finalization.

• Report expected to be finalized by October, 2009.

Road Safety Issues• Road Accidents during 2007

– 4,79,216 no. of road accidents– 1,14,444 persons killed– 80% of road accidents attributed to driver fault

• Awareness campaigns through electronic / print media as well as by involving NGOs being taken by the Ministry

• 2-day Refresher Training being imparted by Ministry to the drivers of heavy vehicles through reputed institutions/NGOs; – 1,92,218 drivers trained during 10th Plan (2002-07)– 11th Plan (2007-12) target is to train about 3 lakh

drivers

Road Safety Issues – Contd..• Trauma Care Services

– Earlier, M/o RT&H was providing ambulances/cranes to States and NGOs for immediate transportation of road accident victims to nearest Trauma centres and evacuation of accident sites.

– M/o Health & Family Welfare formulated a new scheme for upgradation of Trauma Care facilities on NHs

• Envisages establishment of Integrated Network of Trauma Care Centres along GQ, NS-EW corridors of NHs by upgrading Trauma Care facilities in 140 State Govt. Hospitals

– 20 Hospitals to be upgraded to Level-I Trauma Centres equipped to provide highest level of Trauma Care having super specialty facilities

– 40 Hospitals to be upgraded to Level-II Trauma Centres which are primarily Medical Colleges where physicians, surgeons, orthopedics, anesthetists will be available on call; average distance of these trauma centres to be about 300 km

– 80 Hospitals to be upgraded to Level-III Trauma Centres which are primarily District Hospitals to provide initial evaluation and stabilization of Trauma patients; these centres to be available at every 100-150 km

Road Safety Issues – Contd..

• Setting up of a National Road Safety and Traffic Management Board– M/o RT&H is in process setting up the Board through

an Act of Parliament– The Board to Act as a dedicated and independent

Agency to oversee road safety activities in the country– The Board to have powers

• to recommend standards for designing, construction and maintenance of NHs

• To recommend safety standards of Motor Vehicles• Issue guidelines on various road safety issues such as

Trauma Care Services• To improve data collection system on road safety and other

issues concerning road safety – The proposed Act also provides enabling provisions

for creation of similar Boards at the State level