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Read the op again!
As of June 2017...highways are being built at pace of 25 kms/day. With this impetus target can easily be achieved.
Your 25km per day is the best record but it missed the target. Read the source of this "22km/per day news". Still Best of Luck to India! I also wonder, are these roads all paved highway, or a mix of country roads and trunk roads plus real highway?
Govt aimed to build 15,000 km of roads in 2016-17 but laid down only 8,200 km
This construction figure, however, is the highest that the ministry has achieved till date and more than double of what the previous UPA government managed.
india Updated: Apr 01, 2017 01:46 IST
Moushumi Das Gupta
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Workers constructing a road in India.(HT Photo)
The Narendra Modi government built 22 km of roads per day in 2016-17, missing its ambitious target of constructing 41 km every day.
Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari had set an all-time high target of building 15,000 km of roads in 2016-17 but only managed 8,200 km of roads.
This construction figure, however, is the highest that the ministry has achieved till date and more than double of what the previous UPA government managed. Between 2009 and 2014, on an average 6 km to 9 km of roads were built per day.
ROAD BUILT PER DAY
- 2012-14: 9 km/day
- 2015-16: 17.2 km/day
- 2016-17: approx. 22 km/day
Officials said delay in land acquisition and tepid response from private developers came in the way of the ministry meeting its target. “But the Centre according priority to roads helped in achieving an all-time high construction and award figures,” the official added.
ALLOCATION TO THE HIGHWAYS SECTOR IN LAST THREE YEARS
- 2014- Rs 15 34,345 crore
- 2015-Rs 16 44,255 crore
- 2016- Rs 17 57, 976 crore
- 2017- Rs 18 64, 900 crore
The PM has been regularly reviewing the progress of the sector through his monthly meetings where he interacts with central and state officials through video conference, to resolve bottlenecks holding up projects.
The ministry has initiated a series of measures to de-centralise work . “In the last two-and-a-half years, we resolved issues that were stalling about 80 projects. Only a handful of projects are stuck as of now,” said a senior NHAI official.
Besides, the ministry also empowered states to appraise projects worth up to ₹100 crore and invite tenders. Earlier, all such projects used to come under the Centre, resulting in delays.
It also introduced a new model called “hybrid annuity” where the government gives 40 % of the construction cost while the developer invests the remaining 60 %. So far 26 projects have been awarded under the new model.
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