He said the achievement was remarkable as it was achieved despite constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ministry of road transport and highways has constructed 13,394 km of highways in fiscal year 2020-21. Tremendous progress has been achieved in building national highways across the country. We have achieved a road building pace of 37 km of highways a day, Gadkari said. Gadkari said these achievements are unprecedented and have no parallel in any other country in the world . He said over the past seven years, length of national highways has gone up by 50 per cent from 91,287 km (as of April 2014) to 1,37,625 km (as on March 20, 2021).
NHAI contractor Patel Infrastructure had created a world record by laying the highest quantity of concrete on a four-lane highway in 24 hours recently.
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April 02, 2021 11:55 IST
The ministry of road transport and highways has constructed 13,394 km of highways in fiscal year 2020-21.
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Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways, and BJP senior leader, Nitin Gadkari. File | Photo Credit:
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The ministry of road transport and highways has constructed 13,394 km of highways in fiscal year 2020-21. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that the pace of highways construction in the country has touched a record 37 km per day in financial year 2020-21. He said the achievement was remarkable as it was achieved despite constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ministry of road transport and highways has constructed 13,394 km of highways in fiscal year 2020-21.
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