According to the Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Government of India has set the target for construction of highways about 30 kilometres per day in the current fiscal.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, he said that, the average construction of Highways is 25.23 kilometres per day till December in 2019-20 whereas it was 24.37 kilometres per day during the corresponding period in 2018-19.
He also said that, a total of two thousand one hundred 55 kilometres length of roads have been built in the first three months of the current financial year as compared to two thousand three hundred 51 kilometres in the corresponding period last year.
