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India Today
|June 06, 2022
Even when the pandemic put nearly all economic activity on hold, one ministry continued onward, building roads and highways and generating jobs at a time when India was economically vulnerable
Nitin Gadkari
Minister of Road Transport and Highways
HE UNION MINISTER of road transport and highways was a busy man during the pandemic. Nitin Gadkari worked with different state governments to ensure that road and highway construction continued without any obstructions. He released payments to vendors and companies on time. Analysts give him full marks for keeping the pace of road and highway construction going even as the world and India reeled under the virus's attack. Ministry data say the pace of highway construction has gone up from 12 km a day in 2014-15 to 37 km in 2021-22. The total length of national highways grew from 91,287 km (in April 2014) to 141,000 km in December 2021.
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