Deputy CM Keshav PrasadMaurya virtually inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 8,413 projects worth over Rs 10,000 crore to lend a boost to better road connectivity in the state.
The projects include 4,703 roads of 8,737 km across 353 assembly constituencies and 132 bridges in 79 assembly constituencies.
He said that work has been done to connect villages up to a distance of 5 km from the national highway, state highway, main district road and other district roads. He said that before 2017, the length of national highways in the state was 6,000 km, which has now increased to 12,000 km. Construction works have been done while removing all obstacles.