NHAI hits record of building roads 34 km/day from April-Feb 2020
While the minister for road transport and highways is confident of achieving a 40 km/day construction pace soon, many stakeholders also share the optimism. Usually, construction reaches its peak in the January-May period of a year. The pace touched a record of 76 km a day in the week commencing January 8. In February alone, all executing agencies together constructed 2,009 km national highways at a speed of 71.75 km per day. But if not for the first 20 days of April 2020, wherein all construction activity was stopped due to the lockdown, the pace of construction this year would have touched the 40-km a day-mark. Construction of 1 km 10-lane highway is still measured as 1 km and the same holds for the two-lane highway.
As of March 15, 2,084 highway projects with a total length of 63,523 km are under construction in the country at ₹7.89 lakh crore. More than 13,000 km length of roads, at ₹3.3 lakh crore, has already been awarded under the ₹5.35-lakh-crore Bharatmala Pariyojana project. Of this, 3,800 km of the roads have already been constructed. A total of 9,829 km roads under National Highways projects were constructed during 2017-18, 8,231 km in 2016-17, and 6,061 km in 2015-16 km. In 2021-22, the government has fixed a target to construct 12,000 km of National Highways.
Published on:
18 March 2021
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