Union Highways and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday said that National highways are being built at a very fast pace under the leadership of PM Modi and the entire country can hope of getting highways of an American standard in the next 3 years. Gadkari on Saturday virtually dedicated to the nation a 3.75-km long four-lane elevated corridor in Deesa town of Banaskantha jointly with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.

He also said that 38 km of roads are being constructed daily now compared to just 2 km per day in the past. Mentioning that a massive number of projects of the Road Transport and Highways Ministry are in pipeline in Gujarat under the Bharatmala Pariyojana, Gadkari asked Rupani to settle the issues of land acquisition to quicken the pace of infrastructure development.

Gadkari said his ministry is going to launch 1,080 km (road construction) projects worth Rs 25,370 crore in Gujarat under the Bharatmala Pariyojana- the ambitious Road and Highways project that aims to build highways from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and then cover the entire string of Himalayan territories.

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