evidence: - Bharatmala – The Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I was approved in 2017 for the construction and up-gradation of National Highways of 34,800 km length over a period of 5 years (2017 to 2022) at an estimated outlay of Rs. It aims at optimizing the efficiency of freight and passenger movements across the country and bridge the existing infrastructural gaps. The project includes interventions such as the development of economic corridors, Inter Corridors and Feeder Routes, improvement in the efficiency of national corridors, border and international connectivity roads, coastal and port connectivity roads, green-field expressways and multi-modal integration. [...] The government also undertook a range of measures for infrastructural revival, such as improving the processes of land acquisition, terminating certain projects, resolving risks around other projects, introducing asset monetization or the toll operate transfer (ToT) model and introducing the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM), wherein the government provides 40% of the project cost to the developer to start work. All these steps have helped to address the basic bottlenecks hampering the highways sector in the country and speeded up the pace of construction. [...] BW Online Bureau. 2022. Economic Corridors Of 9,000 KM Envisaged For Implementation Under Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I: Centre. New Delhi: BW Business World.