Highway construction pace to be 38 km a day over next 25 months
The ministry of road transport and highways has drawn up a plan to construct around 28,391 km of highways in 25 months at a daily average of around 38 km, starting from March.
Replying to a written question in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said the ministry had envisaged to construct about 60,000 km of national highways from 2019-20 to 2023-24. Of the target, 31,609 km has been constructed up to February this year at a daily average of a little over 30 km.
