Interim Budget 2019: Road construction per day 60% less than targeted

The Central Government has never shied away from dwelling on its focus on highway development in the country, but the word ‘highways’ was mentioned only twice by the Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in his maiden budget speech.

India is constructing 27 km of roads every day since 2017-18, which is way lower than the target of 45 km/day for the current year (2018-19).

But Goyal claimed, "India is the fastest highway developer in the world with 27 km of highways built each day.”

The word ‘infrastructure’ was spoken 10 times by Goyal during his hour-and-a-half-long speech.