Roads and road transport system in India
- India has the second-largest road network in the world, Total Road Length – – 6.4 million km (comprises of national & state highways and urban & rural roads).
- Transportation of goods – 64.5% by road.
- Passenger traffic – 90% by road.
- National highways account for 2% of the total road network and carry over 40% of total traffic. Highway construction in India increased at 17.00% CAGR between FY16-FY21. Despite pandemic and lockdown, India has constructed 13,298 km of highways in FY21. In FY21, 13,298 kms of highway was constructed across India.
- Government push towards Road Infrastructure
- National Infrastructure pipeline – Rs. 111 lakh crore allocated for FY 2019-25 The roads sector is likely to account for 18% capital expenditure over FY 2019-25.
- India has a well-developed framework for Public-Private-Partnerships (PPP) in the highway sector. Asian Development Bank ranked India at the first spot in PPP operational maturity and also designated India as a developed market for PPPs.
- Bharatmala Pariyojana, – aims to build 66,100 km of economic corridors, border and coastal roads, and expressways to boost the highway network.
- The market for roads and highways is projected to exhibit a CAGR of 36.16% during 2016-2025
- Almost 40% (824) of the 1,824 PPP projects awarded in India until December 2019 were related to roads.
- The highways sector in India has been at the forefront of performance and innovation. The government has successfully rolled out over 60 projects worth over $10 bn based on the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM). HAM has balanced risk appropriately between private and public partners and boosted PPP activity in the sector.
- Data Lake and Project Management Software – NHAI has become ‘Fully Digital’, with the launch of unique cloud based and Artificial Intelligence powered Big Data Analytics platform. The entire project management work flow of NHAI is transformed from manual to online portal based, wherein the complete project execution operations including ‘workflow with time lines’ and ‘alert mechanism’ have been configured. All project documentation, contractual decisions and approvals are now being done through portal only.
- 2021-22 Budget recognises this need with a significant budgetary outlay for the road transport and highways sector of ₹1,18,101 crore
- Roads and road transport system in Telangana
- Roads are the life-line of nation providing transportation facility over the length and breadth of country. Systematic development of road is one of the important pre-requisites for development and acceleration of Socio-economic growth of the Country. Among the different modes of transportation systems, road transport carries more than 80 percent of the Goods and Passenger traffic. The network of roads, particularly from villages to town/cities facilitates speedy movement of goods and services and ensures higher growth trends, social integrity and well-being of the society. The productivity and efficiency of Road transport is directly linked with the availability and quality of Road network.
- Telangana Road Network
- Roads and Buildings Department, Telangana State, came into existence on 02-06-2014, on formation of Telangana State. The Operations of the department are conducted, in the name and authority of the Governor of Telangana.
- The Minister for Roads & Buildings in the State Cabinet is responsible to the State Legislature relating to the works of the Department.
- The Department strives to provide efficient, affordable, customer-focused, environmentally sustainable integrated transportation solutions, connecting villages, towns, cities and centers of industry, commerce, tourism and pilgrimage across the State. The department constructs and maintains roads and bridges on all roads under its control
Transport Department of Telangana● The Transport Department of Telangana is set up for enforcement of the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 and Telangana Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1963 and the rules under it. ● Though Telangana has a good rail and air transport system, yet road transport is the most important one. It helps the people especially in rural areas to travel from one place to another with much ease. ● The Transport Department of Telangana is controlled by the Transport Commissioner who is the Head of the Transport Department and is helped by an Additional Commissioner and four Joint Commissioners, three Regional Transport Officers and one Regional Transport officer |
- In Telangana State, the road assets of R&B Dept. comprises of 24,245 kms of road length with 3,152 kms of State Highways, 12,079 kms of Major District Roads, and 9,014 kms of Other District Roads. 16 National Highways are passing through the State of Telangana covering a length of 2,690 kms, out of which 868 kms are with National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
- Ministry of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, Government of India provides complete financial support for the development and maintenance of National Highways under the control of the department.
- R&B Department, Telangana is also responsible for construction and maintenance of Government Buildings of various State Government Departments aggregating to 54.50 lakhs square feet area (Non-Residential Buildings – 13.13 lakhs Sq.fts and Residential Buildings – 41.37 lakhs Sq.fts) and acts as the custodian of State Government Buildings and the appurtenant lands.
