 "NHAI starts process of raising Rs 25,000 cr via medium-term notes")
Any report card on four years of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre will show that its performance in the roads and highways sector has been outstanding. Since 2013-14, there has been a 77 per cent rise in awarding highway contracts and a 38 per cent increase in the construction of roads and highways.
To ramp up the momentum and extent of road building even further, last October the government launched the ambitious Bharatmala Pariyojana, which aims to construct a network of highways connecting the western and eastern parts of the country at an estimated cost of Rs 7
