Odisha Coastal Highway and NH Projects: ₹24,249.6 Crore Outlay

Key facts

• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved National Highway (NH) projects worth approximately ₹24,249.6 crore in Odisha, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, and Bihar.
• The Rameshwar-Paradip section of the Odisha coastal highway will be constructed on a Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) at an estimated cost of ₹8,300.79 crore for a length of 160.18 km.
• The Rameshwar-Paradip section passes through Khurda, Puri, Kendrapada, and Jagatsinghpur districts and connects nine economic nodes and five logistic nodes, including Puri railway station, Puri airport, Astarang port, Paradip port, and the proposed multi-modal logistics park in Jagatsinghpur district.
• In Telangana, the CCEA approved the widening of the Armoor-Jagtial-Mancherial section of NH-63 and the Jagtial-Karimnagar section of NH-563, covering 190.76 km at a cost of ₹7,597.16 crore.
• The CCEA cleared the widening of the Deshgaon-Julwaniya section of NH-347B in Madhya Pradesh at a cost of ₹4,415.60 crore and the Khagaria-Purnea section of NH-31 and NH-231 in Bihar at a cost of ₹3,936.05 crore.