The government has set an ambitious target of 60 km per day highway construction; this was confirmed by Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari, while addressing members of Credai-MCHI through a video conference. To achieve the targets, the government has envisaged a very ambitious highway development program 'Bharatmala Pariyojana' which includes construction of about 65,000 km national highways; under phase-I of the program, the government has approved implementation of 34,800 km of national highways with a target of five years with an outlay of ₹5.35 lakh crore. Prior to this, the ministry had kept a target of 30 km per day for construction of highways and achieved it and now it is aiming at 60 km per day as the speed of development of the road projects would be 2-3 times faster. The highest ever highway construction achieved recently was when NHAI completed the construction of 3,979 km of national highways in FY 2019-20, which was the highest ever highway construction achieved in a financial year. In fiscal FY2019, NHAI had constructed 3,380 km of national highways. The minister reiterated that infrastructure development is necessary to generate jobs and accelerate economy. Unless liquidity is generated from the country's infrastructure, be it development of water systems, power, transport, communications, railways, shipping and ports, it will not be able to grow at the desired pace.
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18 April 2020
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