Budget 2021: 4 poll-bound states get funds for developing road infrastructurea
Hindustan TimesFinance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced road infrastructure plan for four states - Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala and Assam - where elections are due this year as she presented the Union Budget 2021. Tamil Nadu will get ₹ 1.03 lakh crore for building of 3,500 km of roads Full Coverage: Union Budget 2021 | Track Live Coverage Giving the breakout of the highway projects in these states, Sitharaman said that Tamil Nadu will get ₹1.03 lakh crore for building of 3,500 km of roads, Kerala will get ₹65,000 crore for 1,500 km of roads and West Bengal will get ₹95,000 crore for 675 km road. By March 2022 we'd be awarding another 8,500 & complete an additional 11,000 kms of National Highway Corridor," she said in her budget speech. As the finance minister was presenting the Union Budget, Harsimrat Kaur Badal of the Shiromani Akali Dal, Bhagwant Mann of the Aam Aadmi Party and Hanuman Beniwal of the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party registered their protest inside the House on the three new farm legislations by holding placards demanding that the Centre take back the "black" laws.