Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has said the government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is committed to expanding the National Highways network across the country with an aim of constructing 18 thousand kilometre in this fiscal year at a record speed of 50 kilometre per day.
In a tweet today, Mr Gadkari said, the overall target is to develop two lakh kilometres of National Highway network by 2025.
He said, constructing world class road infrastructure in time bound and target oriented way is essential as road infrastructure is the ‘Atma’ of Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
