Another step towards Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat! Devi of Kanyakumari will soon meet Vaishno Devi with single road

"American roads are not good because America is rich, but America is rich because American roads are good," Nitin Gadkari once said during an event. No one denies that transportation infrastructure is responsible for any country's progress. Good transportation infrastructure in urban and rural areas is essential for economic growth. So it is for India.

 

Knowing that important factor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has already started its work on improving India's infrastructure with an incredible pace of 37 km per day in the financial year 2020-21, just to make India the next America.

 

During the financial year 2020-21, the Road Transport and Highways Ministry constructed 8,169 kilometres of national highways from April 2020 to January 2021, i.e., at a speed of around 28.16 kilometres per day. Over the last seven years, the length of national highways has increased by half, from 91,287 km in April 2014 to 1,37,625 km on March 20, 2021.

 

Yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who always batted for `Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat", said that the day is not far away when the Devi of Kanyakumari will meet Vaishno Devi on a single road. PM Modi was addressing a huge gathering on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day in Pali, 17 km from Jammu. It mainly aims to provide “all-weather connectivity” to Jammu and Kashmir.

 

 

 

Reacting to the announcement, Business tycoon Anand Mahindra said that will go straight to the top of his bucket list of things to do before kicking the bucket. Mahindra tweeted, "Yes! Please make that happen as fast as possible. That will go straight to the top of my bucket list of things to do before kicking the bucket: an epic road trip from Kanyakumari to Vaishno Devi!

 

If this happens, then this will be the major north-south national highway in India, which will connect the two ends of the country. It will be the longest national highway in India. This national highway will connect major cities and towns to each other, which will eventually help to create new job opportunities for job seekers. These road projects have the potential to bring small towns and their environs into the mainstream of the country, which will be beneficial for the people in the region.

 

These highway projects will also boost spiritual tourism in the state and will also help in the smooth transportation of agricultural goods. The highway will be part of PM Modi's national infrastructure masterplan called "Pradhan Mantri Gati Shakti".

 

Gati Shakti is PM Modi's ambitious project that was launched with the aim of improving multi-modal connectivity and last-mile connectivity across the country. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the proposal for the development of ‘The PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan" on 21 October 2021 for providing Multi-Modal Connectivity to various economic zones.

 

Under the PM Gati Shakti NMP, the Gadkadri-led Ministry is also planning to develop 22 greenfield expressways, 23 other key infrastructure projects & other highway projects, and 35 Multi-Modal Logistics Parks (MMLPs), as part of the Bharatmala Pariyojana and other schemes of the Ministry.

 

Some of the major Expressways and Corridors, which are under construction stage are Delhi – Mumbai Expressway, Ahmedabad - Dholera Expressway, Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway, Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway, Ambala-Kotputli Expressway, Amritsar-Bhatinda-Jamnagar Expressway, Raipur-VZG Expressway, Hyderabad-VZG Expressway, UER II, Chennai-Salem Expressway and Chittor-Thatchur Expressway. 

 

With that pace India is working to strengthen its infra connectivity. As Gadkari said, India's road infrastructure will be like that of the United States by 2024, India will soon become the New America and will achive its goal of become Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat.

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