 "ministries of road transport and highways")
Actual construction of highways and rural roads has lagged the capital spending done on these two sectors, while the capital spend on railways has produced commensurate results in the first eight months of the financial year, according to the data tabled in Parliament.
About 73 per cent of the capital spend for highways has been used till November 2017, but only 33 per cent of planned highways are complete. The budget for rural roads has been spent thriftily, but only 25 per cent of planned rural roads have been upgraded, though the planned habitations to be connected has been fairly
