With a month from the close of the financial year, construction of national highways (NH) in the country in FY24 has been nearly 13 per cent higher than the last financial year at 9,088 kilometres (km), data by the ministry of road transport and highways shows.
However, the government is likely to miss its target of awarding highway projects by a massive margin, despite a late push in February. The ministry awarded nearly 1,400 km of projects in the previous month to take its FY24 total to 4,872 km, which is 48 per cent of its revised target of 10,000 km.
