The Union government has given conditional approval to the Highways Ministry's proposal for setting up a company to build roads in Border States, the target being to improve connectivity to and in these regions.
The proposal is expected to be nod, depending on the clearance of the Election Commission, the cabinet said.
The Ministry had earlier mooted the idea of setting up a company that would primarily oversee the development of roads in the North-East and other states like J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.