The Tamil Nadu highways department plans to turn seven arterial roads (103.5 km) in Chennai into ‘smart roads’, which means they will have features to limit vehicle speed to 50kmph, besides having walkways, cycle lanes and parking bays. .

According to global financial services major Citigroup report, the road sector in India is doing well. The substantial improvement in ordering and construction of road sector projects is visible and likely to continue in the current fiscal.

The road sector in India seems to be on the revival path buzzing with lots of activity at the policy level and on the ground. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently launched ‘’SETU BHARATAM’ PROGRAMME – an initiative to make National Highways free of railway level crossings by 2019

The preliminary work for phase II of the Tamil Nadu Road Sector Project is completed and the appraisal of the project will be taken up shortly. The highways department has laid 2,867 km of roads under this project.The roads have been identified for development of four lane on PPP basis.

The Government of India has signed credit agreement of US$ 160 million with World Bank for Rajasthan Road Sector Modernisation Project aims at improving rural connectivity, enhance road safety and strengthen road se

The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways is primarily responsible for development and maintenance of National Highways (NHs). The FY2011-12 has been an outstanding year for the Indian Road Sector. A record length of 7957 km of road project was awarded for strengthening/ up gradation and improvement. During the same period, over 2200 km of road development were completed.