Centre aims to build 18,000 km of highways in FY23: Nitin Gadkari

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday that Centre aims to build 18,000 km of highways in financial year 2022-23 at a speed of 50 km/day. He added that the government's overall target is to develop 2 lakh km of National Highway Network by 2025. The pace of national highway (NH) construction in India had touched 37 km/day in 2020-21.