3 years of Modi govt: Rural roads take 124 days to build from UPA's 474

However, the pace of rural road construction has slackened in FY17

On May 22, 2017, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tweeted it had ratcheted the pace of rural road construction under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to 133 km a day over the three years to 2016-17, up from 69.35 km a day in 2013-14.

However, compared with the Narendra Modi government’s own performance in the first two years, the pace of rural road construction has slackened, connecting, up to January 2017, less than half (46%) of the habitations targeted under PMGSY-I in 2016-17, an IndiaSpend