Highway construction slows to 19.44 km per day during April-September: Data

The pace of national highway construction in the country has slowed to 19.44 kilometres per day during the first six months of the current financial year, according to official data.

While the pace of National Highway (NH) construction in the country had touched a record 37 kilometres per day in 2020-21, it had slowed to 28.64 kilometres a day in 2021-22 due to pandemic-related disruptions and a longer-than-usual monsoon in some parts of the country.

“The ministry has constructed 3,559 KMs of National Highways up to september in 2022-23 as compared to 3,824 KMs constructed up to september in 2021-22,” the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) said in its monthly summary for the Cabinet for September 2022.