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Even in this age of jet travel and space tourism, highways hold an irresistible charm for travellers out to have an up, close and personal experience of the wide roads stretching ahead for miles, uninterrupted views of a breathtaking landscape, the occasional flyways and the not-so-familiar villages and towns rushing by. It’s even better than chugging along the countryside in a train. You can stop any time you want – to sample some chatpati chaat and a steaming cuppa of chai at a roadside dhaba; to talk to people; to take a dekko at local interests or simply laze an hour or two in shine or rain with the greens around you and the fresh smell of soil floating in the air. 
 
Now that our <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Chugging-Up-7-Mesmerising-Mountain-Train-RidesIn-India/articleshow/24288850.cms">train series</a> is over (but we promise to bring you more as soon as new and exotic routes come up), we are back with a more exciting roadmap of <keyword id="168020" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="expressways">expressways</keyword> that criss-cross the entire country, connecting the four metros and many of the Tier I cities, and going much beyond the urban landscape. Infrastructure development in India has undergone a sea change over the past few years and the country currently boasts the <keyword id="2034191" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Second-largest-road-network">second largest road network</keyword> in the world, with a road length of over 4,689,842 km, as per 2013 data from the <keyword id="6404450" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ministry-of-Road-Transport-and-Highways">Ministry of Road Transport and Highways</keyword>. 
 Starting from FY2012-13, the <keyword id="44734" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Indian-Government">Indian government</keyword> will be also putting $17 billion over the next five years, being sourced through public-private partnership (<keyword id="6361580" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="PPP">PPP</keyword>) road projects. This will be used by the <keyword id="87432" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="National-Highways-Authority-of-India">National Highways Authority of India</keyword> (<keyword id="49448" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="nhai">NHAI</keyword>) for the planned series of <keyword id="174913" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BOT">BOT</keyword> (build, operate and transfer) highways. In spite of several bottlenecks, the NHAI has set up impressive targets and aims to develop 20 km/day, in a bid to fast-track the country’s <keyword id="2034194" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Road-network-expansion">road network expansion</keyword>. 
 As of July 2013, <keyword id="6373156" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="National-Highways">national highways</keyword> account for 79,116 km, connecting all major cities and state capitals. Expressways, however, differ a bit in the sense they are controlled-access highways like the <keyword id="610047" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="freeways">freeways</keyword> or <keyword id="1333990" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="motorways">motorways</keyword> or autobahnen in the US and Europe, essentially designed for high-speed traffic. As of now, most of the expressways in India are 6-8 lane <keyword id="120837" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="toll-roads">toll roads</keyword> and cover a total distance of nearly 1,208.19 km. India expects to add another 3,530 km of expressways by 2014 as projects under construction get completed. Another massive programme is also under way to expand the network and the Indian government plans to add an additional 18,637 km of expressways by 2022. 
 So are you ready to emerge on another breath-taking <keyword id="6374782" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="journey">journey</keyword> with us, literally a journey of thousand miles and more? We will bring you the super expressways zone-wise – so that you know which route to choose when travelling North or South, East or West. And it will be a beautiful journey as art and cultural critic <keyword id="2034192" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dave-Hickey">Dave Hickey</keyword> so rightly said – Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway. 
 
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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12173789" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gautam-adani" source="Orion">Gautam Adani</keyword>'s wealth exceeded $100 billion for the first time on April 1, 2022, according to <keyword id="12259015" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="bloomberg" source="Orion">Bloomberg</keyword>'s <keyword id="11940268" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="billionaires" source="Orion">Billionaires</keyword> Index.</li><li>Adani founded Adani Group, which works across sectors including energy, mining, and port management.</li></ul>Indian industrialist <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/asias-richest-gautam-adani-kidnapping-mumbai-terrorist-college-dropout-2021-11?r=US&amp;IR=T">Gautam Adani</a>'s wealth has just soared to $122 billion, pushing him past other centibillionaires including Warren Buffett and Larry Page.He's now the fifth richest person in the world.Adani was worth around $10 billion in June 2020, after which his wealth began to soar, data from the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/gautam-s-adani/?sref=lAVQtUwz">Bloomberg Billionaires Index</a> shows. He's already added $28 billion so far in 2022, and breached the $100 billion threshold in early April, per Bloomberg's index.Adani is founder and chairman of the Adani Group, a multinational conglomerate with <a href="https://www.adani.com/businesses">businesses</a> spanning energy, mining, port management, and airport operations. Among other things, Adani Group owns <a href="https://www.adaniports.com/Ports-and-Terminals/Mundra-Port">India's largest commercial port</a> and has a <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/adani-group-takes-over-mumbai-airport/articleshow/84380085.cms">74% stake in Mumbai's international airport</a>.Bloomberg did not provide an underlying explanation for the increase in Adani's wealth but many of the group's businesses have seen their share prices soar since mid-March. According to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-01/adani-joins-musk-bezos-in-exclusive-100-billion-club?sref=lAVQtUwz">Bloomberg</a>, Adani has focused on areas that are key to meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic goals.<h2>From diamond sorter to owner of a multinational conglomerate</h2>Adani was born in Ahmedabad, in the Indian state of Gujarat, in 1962. He dropped out of Gujarat University after his second year studying commerce, according to <a href="https://www.siliconindia.com/news/success-stories/gautam-adani-from-a-college-dropout-to-billionaire-industrialist-nid-210122-cid-80.html">Silicon India</a>. He then turned to the diamond industry, first as a sorter and then as a trader in Mumbai, the publication reported.After his brother purchased a plastic company, Adani joined him in the management of the business and started importing PVC, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/gautam-s-adani/?sref=lAVQtUwz">per Bloomberg</a>. In <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/gautam-s-adani/?sref=lAVQtUwz">1988</a>, Adani set up Adani Enterprises.Adani said he and a companion were kidnapped in 1998 after a group of men held them at gunpoint. A police report said the kidnappers demanded a $2 million ransom and released the pair after the ransom was paid, per <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/two-accused-of-abducting-gautam-adani-20-years-ago-acquitted-5473592/">The Indian Express</a>. Eight people accused of the kidnapping were ultimately acquitted, <a href="https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/companies/article/throwback-when-indias-fifth-richest-man-survived-a-kidnapping-and-terrorist-attack/606122">Times Now India</a> reported.Adani was dining at the Taj Mahal Hotel during the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46314555">2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks</a>. He told <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/latest-headlines/story/gautam-adani-mallika-sarabhai-escape-after-close-encounter-with-death-34159-2008-11-28">India Today </a>that from his table, he could see militants entering the hotel. He said he hid in the hotel's basement before moving to a hallway high up in the building.The Adani Group is made up of six publicly-traded companies. It <a href="https://www.adani.com/About-us">says</a> it has a market capitalization of $222 billion and over 23,000 staff.Adani is an executive director of <a href="https://www.bseindia.com/bseplus/AnnualReport/512599/68600512599.pdf">Adani Enterprises</a> and <a href="https://www.bseindia.com/bseplus/AnnualReport/532921/68598532921.pdf">Adani Port and Special Economic Zone</a>, and a non-executive director of Adani Power, Adani Transmissions, Adani Total Gas, and Adani Green Energy.Most of Adani's wealth is derived from the big shareholdings he has in his companies. According to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-01/adani-joins-musk-bezos-in-exclusive-100-billion-club?srnd=wealth&amp;sref=lAVQtUwz">Bloomberg</a>, he holds 75% stakes in each of Adani Enterprises, Adani Power, and Adani Transmissions. Adani Enterprises' <a href="https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ADANIENT:NSE?window=1Y">share price</a> has almost doubled in the last year while Adani Power's has <a href="https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ADANIPOWER:NSE?window=1Y">tripled</a>.The only people richer than Adani are Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, according to Bloomberg's index. Musk is worth $253 billion, per Bloomberg – making him nearly $100 billion richer than Bezos, who's in second place.Adani is the richest Indian on the list, ahead of Mukesh Ambani, whose wealth Bloomberg put at around $103 billion. Ambani is the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, a multinational conglomerate.

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