The figures released by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) indicate that the total constructed length of national highways for the financial year 2020-21 could touch 13,000 km. According to the figures released recently by MoRTH, highway construction achieved another milestone by constructing 12,205.25 km of national highways in the financial year 2020-21 (till 22^nd March 2021), at a rate of 34 km per day. This is almost three times the rate of construction of highways of about 12 km per day in 2014-15. This is also 1,205 km more than the target (11,000 km) fixed for the current fiscal, in spite of the Covid pandemic impacting the market.

Going ahead, the government aims to soon achieve a highway construction pace of 40 km per day from the current 34 km per day, which was 30 km per day in 2018-19.