The Road, Transport, and Highways Ministry has achieved the enviable target of constructing record 30 km highway a day. The feat could be achieved after the construction of 11,035 kilometres of national highways this fiscal so far.
Union Road Transport, Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said highway building has achieved a new feat, with the construction touching record 30 km a day. “We have built 11,035 km of highways till date this year. This comes to 32.85 km a day of highway building, which is a record,” Gadkari said on the sidelines of an event talking to the media.
Gadkari said that by end of this financial year the construction could go up to 40 km a day.