Given a slowing of highway construction pace in recent months, the government has lowered the target for the year to 33 km/day from 40 km/day set earlier. This would mean that much less roads will be built in 2021-22, compared with 2020-21, the original pandemic year.
“Targets for the construction of national highways are finalised on a year-on-year basis. The government has set a target of 12,000 km (for) the current financial year against which 5,118 km which has been constructed as on November 30, 2021,” road transport and highways minister Gadkari said in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
The original target was to build 14,600 km highways in 2021-22, up from 13,327 km constructed in 2020-21.
