Amid the pandemic and a delayed retreat of the monsoons, the annual highways construction target of 12,000 km for this fiscal is unlikely to be met, with the numbers set to less than that of 2020-21.
Since April 1 last year to March 10 this year, around 8,278 km of highways have been constructed. By the end of February, the length of highways built stood at 8,045 km, a shortfall of almost 3,000 km when compared to the progress by this time last fiscal. In March, the pace so far has been around 23 km a day.
Despite the pandemic and the lockdown in 2020, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways ended the financial year ending March 2021 on a high,
