Nitin Gadkari promises US-like roads in India by 2024
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New Delhi: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari guaranteed to Rajya Sabha that by 2024 roads in India will be like those in the United States.
The minister explained that the 26 green express highways to be in place by 2024 will cut down the travel time between key cities across the nation, according to a report in The Indian Express.
Once the highways go operational, travel time from Delhi to Dehradun, Haridwar and Jaipur will come down to two hours.
Gadkari also said one can travel from Delhi to Chandigarh in two-and-a-half hours, Delhi to Amritsar in four hours, and Delhi-Mumbai in 12 hours.
Alongside, his ministry is looking forward to introduce to new technology to collect toll as the current toll plazas are causing traffic snarls.
One of the new options for collecting toll, he said, is a technology driven satellite system which will work on GPS in vehicles, directly deducting payment from the vehicle owner's account.
The second is the numberplate based computerized system, which will avail the new numberplate that the government introduced in 2019.
As a vehicle enters a toll highway, the system according to him will register the point at which the vehicle entered and exited, to deduct toll from the vehicle owner's account for the kilometres travelled along the highway.