The government has approved construction of 1,000 kilometer of expressways under its National Highways Development Project- NHDP at a total cost of 16,680 crore rupees.

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in a statement said, the constructions of roads will be carried out through public private partnership.

The projects include 400 km long Vadodara-Mumbai route, 66 km long Delhi-Meerut expressway, 334 km long Bangalore-Chennai, and 277 km Kolkata-Dhanbad expressways. In addition, there is a proposal to develop the National Expressway-2 which will connect National Highway-1 near Kundli in Haryana and terminating on NH-2 near Palwal.

The statement also said that there is also a proposal to establish the Expressways Authority of India on the pattern of the National Highways Authority of India -NHAI on which discussion is on.