Interim Budget 2014: India's road network jumped over 7-fold in 10 years, says FM

"In the year 2004, the country's highway network was 51,511 km which has now reached 3,89,578 km today," he said in his Interim Budget speech. "We have added highways and rural roads under the PMGSY (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana)," Chidambaram said.

Pitching for higher allocation for the infrastructure sectors, the finance minister said, there should be more funds for defence, railways, national highways and telecom.

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