The foundation stone has been laid for two national highway projects in Karnataka, to be built at a cost of Rs. 323 crore. The projects are construction of an elevated corridor at Rani Chennamma Circle in Hubballi city and four-lane road and minor bridge near Dastikoppa Kalaghatgi Tq on NH 63.

Work to widen the Villupuram-Nagapattinam highway (NH 45A) will be expedited after the Supreme Court held that environment clearance was not necessary for the project which aims to widen the coastal road. NHAI, which is executing the project, has been directed to ensure that the land acquisition does not exceed certain parameters.

Finally addressing a decade-old issue, the National Highways Authority of India has floated tenders for wildlife underpasses on NH-6 (NH-53) in the dense forest patches left out between Sakoli and Deori in Bhandara and Gondia districts. Underpasses will be built at multiple patches which connect seven vital tiger populations of the Central Indian Tiger Landscape Complex.

NHAI has expedited the on-going construction work of the Kandagiri flyover on National Highway No 5 in order to make it functional by June this year. Proposals will also be sent to the NHAI for the construction of two more foot over-bridges between Rasulgarh, Palasuni and Jaydev Vihar-Nayapalli Puja Mandap. NHAI has also approved the construction of a foot over-bridge between Saheed Nagar and Satsang Vihar Park in Bhubaneswar.

NHAI has started work for the construction of a flyover at Tajpur Chowk on National Highway (NH-44) in Ludhiana. The length of the flyover would be around 500 meters and it would have five spans. The service lane on both sides of the NH-44 will be widened. The flyover work will be completed by December 2021.

Work on construction of a road over-bridge across the railway tracks at Kumaramangalam, as part of the semi-ring road for Tiruchi, has begun. The Karaikudi Project Implementation Unit of the NHAI, which is executing the 25-km Thuvakudi-Panjapur segment of the semi ring road project, conducted the ground breaking ceremony.

The 29-km Dwarka Expressway project by is to completed by September 2022. Two stretches of the project in Gurgaon totalling approximately 19 km would be completed by June this year. Work on Delhi stretches started late as forest clearance was pending.

After much delay, work under Phase One of the Satellite Town Ring Road (STRR) has finally begun. It will connect Dobbspet and Doddaballapur and has a budget of Rs 1,350 crore. The four-lane tolled Ring Road aims to connect the towns around Bengaluru and decongest traffic.

NHAI has started the land acquisition process in Pune district for a Rs. 3,750 crore project for four-laning the Sant Dnyaneshwar and Sant Tukaram palkhi procession routes. Land is being acquired along the Hadapsar-Jejuri, Hadapsar-Patas-Baramati and Indapur stretches.