The Rs 2.9 lakh crore allotted for street transport and highways ministry for 2025-26 – barely 2.4% greater than the revised estimate of FY25 – is the bottom improve in the final 10 years.
Sources stated the marginal rise is principally as a result of not many initiatives are below execution and no new flagship highway improvement programme has been permitted thus far. The ministry is predicted to fulfill the expenditure goal for FY25 as govt has allowed National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to pre-pay round Rs 40,000 crore from the budgetary allocation.
As per the Budget estimate, Rs 1.9 lakh crore has been allotted to NHAI, which is a rise of round Rs 20,000 crore from FY25.The govt continues to offer your entire funding to NHAI from the Budget and makes no provision for borrowings for the following fiscal because it continues its focus to scale back the authority’s debt burden.
NHAI’s whole debt originally of the present fiscal was pegged at Rs 3.3 lakh crore, which dropped to round Rs 2.8 lakh crore on the finish of the third quarter of FY25.
