Road Sector

  • Road is the dominant mode of transportation in comparison with rail, air traffic and in land water ways and accounts for about 3.14 per cent of GVA and 69 per cent and 90 per cent of the country wide freight and passenger traffic respectively.
  • India has a road network of about 58.98 lakh kms as on 31 March,2017 with rural roads constituting 70.65 per cent and National highways constituting 1.94 per cent.
  • Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) declared 2018-19 as the ‘Year of Construction’, and has been making constant efforts to expand and upgrade the network of National Highways in ....
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