Staff Reporter
Guwahati: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has allocated and released Rs 1,500 crore to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for projects under National Highways (Original)-NE during the Financial Year 2024-25. The current financial year is ending on March 31, 2025.
According to a communiqué from MoRTH, the fund has been released under the NH(O)-NE Scheme to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for NH works entrusted to NHAI during the current financial year.
The above expenditure is debitable to the following head under the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways for the year 2024-25: Capital Outlay on Road & Bridges (Major Head); National Highway (Sub-Major Head); Road Works (Minor Head); Special Accelerated Road Development Programme in the North Eastern area; Works under Road Wing/State PWDs; and Infrastructural Assets.
The communiqué further stated that the total Budget Estimates (BE) provision under NH(O)-NE for the financial year 2024-25 is Rs 14,830 crore, out of which an amount of Rs. 10,905 crore has been allocated, and an amount of Rs 3925.00 crore is kept as a reserve/balance in the head of account NH(O)-NE-GBS (gross budgetary support).
As per GBS, a total of 54 ministries and departments under the central government are mandated to spend at least 10% of their gross budget for the Northeastern states. Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, while speaking at the Advantage Assam 2.0 summit at Guwahati recently, said that Rs 80,000 crore will be spent on road infrastructure in Assam.
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