The following plan have been drawn up to develop roadways in India
- Nagpur Plan
- This was the first serious attempt to develop roadways in 1943
- The plan envisaged at increasing the kilometrage of major roads in India
- Plan could not be implemented immediately, because the country was ruled by a number of princely states outside of British India
- Twenty Year Plan
- This was drawn in 1961, and it aimed at increasing the road length and density in India
- It also aimed at bringing villages close to metaled roads in India
- The Rural Development Plan
- This included the construction of rural roads under Minimum Needs Programme, Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme, Jawahar Rojgar Yojana, etc.
- Build Operate transfer(BOT)
- This is a scheme under which private operators are invited to construct roads and bridges
- The private players are allowed to collect toll for the usage of Infrastructure, post which the assets are transferred to the Government
