India’s largest highway development programme, the Bharatmala Pariyojana, has seen substantial progress, with over 21,700 Km of roads constructed across the country as of December 2025, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways informed the Lok Sabha.
Bharatmala Pariyojana was approved in 2017 with an overall target of 34,800 Km of highways aimed at improving connectivity and reducing logistics costs nationwide.
Of this, projects covering 26,425 Km have been awarded, while 21,783 Km have already been constructed, marking significant physical progress under Phase-I.
“As of December 2025, projects covering length of 26,425 km have been awarded and 21,783 km have been constructed,” Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
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The minister further informed that a total of 236 projects under the Bharatmala Pariyojana, covering a length of 13,178 km across the country were inaugurated during 2019 to 2025.
On the programme’s future roadmap, the minister clarified that new sanctions under Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I have been discontinued.
“New sanctions of projects under Phase-I of Bharatmala Pariyojana has been discontinued. Further, there is no approved program namely Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-II,” the minister said.
The Bharatmala Pariyojana envisages development of about 26,000 km length of Economic Corridors, which along with Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) and North-South and East-West (NS-EW) Corridors are expected to carry majority of the Freight Traffic on roads, according to the information on the website of the Road Transport and Highways Ministry.
Further, about 8,000 km of Inter Corridors and about 7,500 km of Feeder Routes have been identified for improving effectiveness of Economic Corridors, GQ and NS-EW Corridors.
The programme envisages development of Ring Roads or bypasses and elevated corridors to decongest the traffic passing through cities and enhance logistic efficiency; 28 cities have been identified for Ring Roads; 125 choke points and 66 congestion points have been identified for their improvements.
Further, in order to reduce congestion on proposed Corridors, enhance logistic efficiency and reduce logistics costs of freight movements, 35 locations have been identified for development of Multimodal Logistics Parks.
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