PM Narendra Modi raised 14000 crore for his Project, named, Bharat Mala like Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee built the Golden Quadrilateral.

Bharat Mala is the name given to a ambitious programme of the Modi government — a road built along India’s vast west-to east land border, from Gujarat to Mizoram, linking that to a road network in coastal states, from Maharashtra to Bengal.

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•  The Bharat Mala project has started with a detailed all-India assessment of the existing network.
• The government will have to construct some 5,300 km of new roads at an estimated cost of about Rs 12,000-14,000 crore.
• The government hopes to finish the project in five years.
• The project will start from Gujarat and Rajasthan,then move to Punjab and then will cover the whole Himalayan states – Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar alongside Terai Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and will finally end up covering the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur and Mizoram.
• Bharat Mala will eventually connect with another signature project, Sagar Mala, which aims to connect ports and coastal regions with the hinterland through both rail and road links, besides developing inland waterways.
• Bharat Mala is India’s  answer to improve reach and connectivity in border areas, right across a large part of which lies China’s impressive road infrastructure.