Highways construction touches record 37 km per day: Nitin Gadkari

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that the pace of highways construction in the country has touched a record 37 km per day in financial year 2020-21.

He said the achievement was remarkable as it was achieved despite constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ministry of road transport and highways has constructed 13,394 km of highways in fiscal year 2020-21.

“Tremendous progress has been achieved in building national highways across the country… We have achieved a road building pace of 37 km of highways a day,” Gadkari said.

Gadkari said these “achievements are unprecedented and have no parallel in any other country in the world”.