India: Initiatives to Develop Asian Highways
The development works on Asian Highways are taken up within the framework of national priorities without according separate specific priority. Funds are disbursed on construction and maintenance of NH are State/UT-wise and not NH or AH-wise. The state roads are upgraded to National Highways depending upon requirement of connectivity, inter-se-priority and availability of funds. No state road has been declared as NH in order to upgrade them into AH. Further, there is no such requirement also.
This information was given by Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways, Shri Pon Radhakrishnan in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
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