Zydex Technologies are planning to build up 20,000 km of moisture- resistance green road in India by 2016. The IT giant ill be using nanotechnology to construct, after laying such highways earlier in US, Europe and Africa.

The firm is looking to lay roads using innovative technique in the next three years to provide moisture-resistance and pothole-free roads, which require no maintenance for about next 15 years. They have already laid 500km.

The Gujarat-based firm has patented its nanotechnology which reduces water percolation into roads. Using this technology the government can save Rs 7,200 crore per annum on tar only.

Tar consumption in India is about 5 million tonnes per annum, which costs Rs 18,000 crore, of which 85 pc is used to repair roads. The technology would double the life of roads in India. The firm also claimed that using this technology the government can save Rs 21,000 annually in rural roads.

The firm is also planning to hike the capacity four-fold to 6,000 tonnes a year at Vadodara plant with an expense of Rs 30 crore.

The new technology is getting wider gratitude globally, including in Texas, where he claimed 45 pc of roads were built using it. The firm has also got orders from Canada, US, Germany, Sweden, Nigeria, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, Japan and many other countries which are rapidly using the technology but in India they are facing huge roadblocks.

The firm has laid roads in Leh-Ladakh recently, and they are pursing some states to work under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.