Highways of Growth
THE UNION BUDGET HAS SOUGHT TO GIVE A major impetus to infrastructure on the back of “accelerated development of highways”, with the road transport & highways ministry being allocated Rs 91,823.2 crore, as against Rs 83,016 crore in the previous fiscal. The allocation is the biggest among all infrastructure verticals.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her budget speech that the 1,250
