The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has exceeded the target for highway construction for fiscal year 2021 despite the ongoing pandemic that led to a lockdown during the year, it said in a statement.
MoRTH has constructed 12,205.25 km of national highways till 22 March 2021 in the current financial year, clocking a construction of 34 kilometres per day. “This is also 1,205 km more than the target (11,000 km) fixed for the current fiscal,” the ministry said in the statement.
“This is almost three times the rate of construction of highways of about 12 km per day in 2014-15,” it added.
