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Friday, May 30, 2008

Last year, National Highway Projects Crawled The Slowest Ever

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The country's biggest infrastructure upgrade under the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) has recorded the lowest-ever progress rate under this government in 2007-08.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has posted a56 per cent project completion rate across all phases of the NHDP in 2007-08 in terms of completion of projects the lowest since the UPA came to power and Union Minister TR Baalu came to head the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways.

The NHDP exercise is on along 33,000 km of national highways across NHDP I, II, III and V.

It has only been a slide down in the NHDP progress rate since 2004 and that was evident earlier this week when Baalu held a review with NHAI.

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