180,000 km highways, 120,000 km rail lines by 2025 in India: Report

India is on course to build more national highways and rail lines during the decade ending 2025 than it has cumulatively done between 1950 and 2015, Bank of America Securities India said in a report. As per the report, the total length of national highways is expected to reach 1.8 lakh km, while that of the railway lines 1.2 lakh km by 2025. Between 1950 and 2015, the nation built only 4,000 km of national highways, taking the total length to 77,000 km in 2015. However, the highway length is on course to cross 1.8 lakh km by 2025 -- more than double the existing length -- in 10 years’ time.