Rural roads constituted 71.4 pc of total network in India till March 2019: Report
Rural roads constituted 71.4 per cent of the total road network in the country as of March 2019, a Road Ministry report said on Wednesday. As per the report Basic Road Statistics in India-2018-19, India had a road network of over 63,31,757 kilometres as of March 31, 2019, which is the second largest in the world.
As per the report, the total road constructed increased to 63,31,757 km in 2019 from 62,15,797 km in 2018 and registered a growth of 1.9 per cent.
