Highway construction during April-February lowest in four years
The pace of highway construction fell to a four-year low of 24 km/day during the April-February period of the current fiscal. In the whole of 2020-21, highway construction had hit an all-time high of 36.5 km a day, despite the pandemic.
The pace of construction may go up to 28 km a day for the current fiscal year, if all executing agencies including the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) manage to construct in March as much of highway stretches as they did last year (2,184 km).
Still, the the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) had pruned construction target for the current fiscal to 33 km/day from 40 km/day set earlier, due to slowing pace of construction pace in recent months.
