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HIGH ON HIGHWAYS

Nitin Gadkari, the Union minister of road transport and highways, set an ambitious target for them: to construct 60 kilometres of highways every day. It’s an uphill task, considering that in FY23, just over 30 km of highways were built on an average daily. The total length of highways thus laid stood at 10,993 km, falling short by 13.7 per cent of

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