High On Highway
India is building roads at a frenetic pace. The dream of building 40 kilometres a day is within the realm of possibility now.
While taking charge of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in May 2014, Nitin Jairam Gadkari set himself and his ministry an audacious target to raise the pace of road construction in the country to 40 kilometres (KM) a day. This amounted to a four fold increase from 8.7 KM per day in 2013/14, which was around a seven year low.
A spate of reforms has ensured that this 'impossible' target is now within reach. Over the last four years, road construction has picked up pace from 12 KM per day in his first year (2014/15) of the NDA government to almost 27 KM a day
