Highway construction hits all-time high, 27 km built per day
Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced that highway construction hit its all-time high of 9,829 kilometres in 2017-18, adding that an average of around 27 kilometres of roads were built every day. Contracts were awarded for over 17,000 kilometres of roads. The ministry aims to construct 40 kilometres per day in the current fiscal, he added.