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Direction: In the following questions, you have two passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

PASSAGE - II

The National Highways Network of India measures over 70,934 km as of 2010, including over 1,000 km of limited-access expressways. Out of 71.000 km of National Highways 15,000 plus km are 4 or 6 lanes and remaining 50,000 km are 2 lanes The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is the nodal agency responsible for building, upgrading and maintaining most of the national highways network. The National Highways Development Project (NHDP) is a major effort to expand and upgrade the network highways. NHAI often uses a public-private partnership model for highway development, maintenance and toll-collection. National highways constituted about 2% of all the roads in India, but carried about 40% of all the total road traffic as of 2010. The majority of existing national highway are two- lane roads (one lane in each direction), thought much of this is being expanded to four- lanes, and some to six or eight Lanes, Some sections of the network are toll roads. Over 30,000 km of new highways are planned or under Construction as part of the NHDP as of 2011. This includes over 2,600 km of expressways currently under construction.

What is the current measurement of expressways under construction in India?

A) 15,000 km                    

B) 30.000 km

C) 2.600 km                      

D) 1,000 km