Overview

• The Mokama–Munger four‑lane greenfield section (82.4 km) will be built under Hybrid Annuity Mode at Rs 4,447.38 crore with a completion target of about three years.
• Designed for a 100 km/h top speed with average speeds of 80 km/h and closed tolling, the corridor is expected to reduce travel time on the route to roughly 1.5 hours.
• The Bhagalpur–Dumka–Rampurhat rail line will be doubled over 177 km across Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal at Rs 3,169 crore to relieve a saturated single‑track section.
• Indian Railways projects an additional 15 MTPA freight capacity serving 441 villages and about 29 lakh people, with estimated savings of roughly 5 crore litres of oil and 24 crore kg of CO2.
• The highway project is expected to generate about 14.83 lakh man‑days of direct employment and 18.46 lakh man‑days indirectly, as ministers and the Prime Minister publicly announced the approvals ahead of his Bihar visit.