Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday informed the Rajya Sabha that by 2024, street infrastructure in India shall be much like that of the United States.
Before 2024, as many as 26 inexperienced specific highways shall be constructed which can deliver down journey time significantly.
Once the highways are in place, journey time from Delhi to Dehradun, Delhi to Haridwar, Delhi to Jaipur would solely take round two hours. While Delhi to Chandigarh will take 2.30 hrs, Delhi to Amritsar shall be accomplished in 4 hours and Delhi to Mumbai in 12 hours.
The Minister was replying to Congress MP Rajeev Shukla’s question throughout Question Hour on the fund availability of NHAI. “The Government is constructing 26 green highways. Road infrastructure in India will be similar to that of the U.S by 2024. There is no dearth of funds. We are committed to changing the face of road infrastructure in the country,” Gadkari mentioned in his reply.
On the fund availability, he mentioned that NHAI can assemble roads value 5 lakh crore yearly.
During a dialogue over Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary acknowledged that in Uttar Pradesh throughout the interval 2018-20, as many as 1,338 instances had been registered beneath UAPA, in line with the federal government’s information. However, solely 83 noticed a conviction that accounts for a 6 per cent conviction fee.

“This proves that the application of the law is somewhat wrong. How will you sensitise the UP police towards the law?” Chaudhary requested MoS Home Nityanand Rai.
This is the information of states and this isn’t like that judgement have come on the all issues. And, state Governments additionally file instances beneath UAPA,” the minister replied.