Modi launches `Setu Bharatam’ project
posted on Mar 4, 2016 @ 1:54PM
The Prime Minister has today unveiled the Rs. 50,800 crore Setu Bharatam project.
- The project is aimed to make all national highways free from railway level crossing by 2019 to ensure safety and speed.
- A total of 208 railway crossings will be replaced by rail over bridges (ROBs) to prevent any breakups in the journey.
- 1,500 old bridges will also be reconstructed under the project. These bridges would be picked up basing on the requirement from a total of 1,50,000 bridges that lay across the nation.
- Speaking at the launch, Modi has criticised that the earlier governments used to announced trains to please certain MPs, but has never cared about the infrastructure.
- Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari too was present at the occasion.