50,000 km of rural roads to be built by 2030: BC Pradhan

30 Aug 2022 CW Team

BC Pradhan, Consultant Director (Technical) of National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency (NRIDA), said, “Till date, about 7 lakh km of rural roads have been constructed and the target is to build another 50,000 km by 2030 and the focus will be on usage of green technology.

BC Pradhan said that already NRIDA has brought out a Vision Document 2022, which will be the guidelines for the future rural road constructions in the country.

India has the world’s second largest rural road connectivity and the cold-mix bitumen technology has not only a high life cycle but is also eco-friendly as it is 33 per cent less pollutant. The vision of PM Narendra Modi is to reduce 1 lakh billion tonnes of carbon footprint by 2030.

He further added that the industrial and the mining wastes in this part of the world like over burdens of open cast coal mines, slag of steel plant and fly ash of the thermal power plants can be scientifically used instead of natural resources like top soil as base course material for rural roads constructions.

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