Govt targets 18,000 km highway construction in FY23, at 50 km/day: Gadkari

The target is ambitious as the ministry in 2021-22 set a 40-km per day construction goal, but later revised it down.

The road transport and highways ministry aims to construct a record 18,000 km of highways in 2022-23 at a pace of 50 km per day, said minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. The FY23 target is 33 per cent higher than that last fiscal.

The target is ambitious as the ministry in 2021-22 set a 40-km per day construction goal, but later revised it to 32 km per day at 12000 km for the full fiscal.

“This is a target… I’m not giving a guarantee that we will achieve it. But targets are always high, and it will push us