The length of road projects awarded by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) together increased a little over two times to 5,113 kilometres (km) in March 2022 from the year ago.
It was nearly six times higher than 735 km of the road length awarded in the previous month. With this, the total length of projects awarded in FY22 increased by 22% year-on-year to nearly 12,731 km.