New FY24 highway target highest so far

According to officials in the ministry of road transport and highways, the government has taken up the highway construction target for FY24 to 13,800 km from 12,500 km earlier.

- Subhash Narayan

The government has increased the highway-building target for the current year as it looks to fast-track infrastructure development in the runup to state and general elections.

Highway development is thought to have an immediate and positive connect with voters.

According to officials in the ministry of road transport and highways, the government has taken up the highway construction target for FY24 to 13,800 km from 12,500 km earlier.

Construction agencies have been told to push the pace of road building and achieve a target of over 40 km of highways per day in the remaining nine months of the year, so that the revised overall target is achieved without fail.

Mint had earlier reported that the government is looking to raise highway-construction to an all-time high this year.