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WHAT WE WILL BE DISCUSSING IN THIS VIDEO
What is BharatMala project all about?
How will BharatMala improve connectivity with India’s
neighbours?
Why is it important?
How will BharatMala provide employment to people?
HOW DO ROADS HELP IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?
When in trouble, some politicians and countries return to the influential British
economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynes believed that governments must be ready to
borrow more and invest in public works in order to restart growth.
The government will build roads. It will employ many people in the process and pay
them. This income when spent will spur businesses as well as the economy.
The project is expected to create nearly 100 million man days of jobs during the road
construction and subsequently 22 million jobs as a result of the increased economic
activity across the country.
OTHER POINTS
• When you put a road through a backward area, you bring them close to
employment options, markets and better healthcare.
Infrastructure(roads primarily) is the key to wiping poverty.
INDIA CHINA EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE
To go from Beijing to Shanghai via road, as per Google Maps, it takes
around12.5 hours for a distance of 1213 km (via G15/25; tolled).
To go from Delhi to Mumbai, it takes around 22.5 hours for a distance of
1414 km (via NH48; tolled).
For 200 km more in India, 10 more hours are required. Average speeds in
the Chinese example are around 100 km per hour, and in the Indian one
around 60 km per hour.
ENTER BHARATMALA Bharatmala is a new umbrella program for the highways sector that
focuses on optimizing efficiency of road traffic movement across the
country by bridging critical infrastructure gaps.
Bharatmala Project, which was cleared by the Union Cabinet on October
25, is the second largest highways construction project in the country
since NHDP (National Highways Development Project) [The Golden
Quadrilateral (GQ; 5,846 km) connecting the four major cities of Delhi,
Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. ]
MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT & HIGHWAYS
The Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Water
Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shri Nitin Gadkari
The project covering a whopping 34800 kms of road would be completed
in a phased manner.
THERE’S MORE
In addition to Rs. 5,35,000 crore for Bharatmala Phase-I, there is
a requirement of Rs. 1,57,324 crore for ongoing schemes like
NH(O), SARDP-NE, EAP and LWE under implementation in the
Highways Sector. Thus, the overall outlay for Bharatmala and all
existing schemes put together will be Rs 6,92,324 crore over a
period of 5 years
(Special Accelerated Road Development Programme in North
East)
EMPLOYMENT Development of projects/sub projects under the umbrella program would
generate
substantive employment opportunities across the country.
It has been estimated that more than 10 crore mandays shall be generated
from Phase I of the program. (Some estimates say14.2 crore man days of
jobs)
2.2 crore permanent jobs
LOGISTICS
Bharatmala will lower logistics costs to 6% from 18% now:
Nitin Gadkari
Bharatmala programme will increase vehicle travelling speed
by around 20-25%, thereby helping reduce logistics costs
India has been grappling with high logistics costs of 16-18%,
which make its exports uncompetitive vis-à-vis China, which
has lower logistics costs of 8-10%.
CONNECTIVITY
The program shall enable to connect 550 Districts in the country through
NH linkages.
Currently, around 300 Districts have NH linkages.
NORTH-EAST
Funding: The BharatMala project will be funded in three-pronged
manner – market, private investment and asset recycling of
NHAI’s toll assets.
Of total Rs.5,35,000 crore, Rs, 2.09 lakh crore will be raised as
debt from market, Rs 1.06 lakh crore will be mobilised through
public-private partnership (PPP) mode and remaining Rs. 2.19
lakh crore will flow from accruals of Central Road Funds, Toll-
Operate-Maintain-Transfer monetisation proceeds and toll
collections.
NHAI
The project will start from Gujarat and Rajasthan, move
to Punjab and then cover the entire string of Himalayan
states - Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh,
Uttarakhand - and then portions of borders of Uttar
Pradesh and Bihar alongside Terai, and move to West
Bengal , Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and right up to
the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur and Mizoram.
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