Lok Sabha Question No. 629 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-22
Subject: Pace of Road Construction
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: Nama Nageswara Rao

be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government will be able to achieve the ambitious road construction target of 40 km per day set for the current fiscal year in view of the prevailing Covid pandemic and lack of participation from the private sector;
- (b) if so, the details thereof along with the average road construction till June 2021, State-wise;
- (c)  the  present  status  of  Yadgiri-  Warangal  four-laning  project  in Telangana which was approved in December 2015 with anticipated completion time of November 2018;
- (d)  the  details  of  the  time  and  cost  overrun  in  this  project  and reasons for delay in completing the project; and
- (e) the revised time by which the project is likely to be completed?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

(SHRI NITIN JAIRAM GADKARI)

- (a) The  Ministry  has  set  a  target  of  construction  of  12,000  km  of National Highways in the Financial Year 2021-22.
- (b) State-wise length of National Highways constructed in the year 2021-22 till June 2021 is at Annexure-I.

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 629 ANSWERED ON 22 nd  JULY, 2021

## PACE OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION

629.  SHRI NAMA NAGESWARA RAO:

Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

सडक परिवहन औि िाजमार्ग मंत्री

- (c) , (d) & (e) The  original scheduled  completion  date  of the Yadgiri-Warangal four-laning project in Telanganawas 28.11.2018. However, the project got delayed due to delay in land acquisition, Court intervention, poor mobilization of resources by Contractor and additionalworks of 4 VUPs on the Connecting roads.Sanctioned Cost of the Project is Rs.1906.97 crore and Expenditure as on 15.07.2021 is Rs.1626.17 crore.

Provisional Completion Certificate of the project has beenissued on 30.09.2020.

## ANNEXURE-I

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (b)  OF  LOK SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  629  ON  22 nd   JULY,  2021 ASKED BY SHRI NAMA NAGESWARA RAO REGARDING 'PACE OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION'

State-wise length of National Highways constructed in the year 2021-22 till June 2021:

| Sr. No.   | State / UT        |   Length (in km) |
|-----------|-------------------|------------------|
| 1         | A & N Islands     |           22.35  |
| 2         | Andhra Pradesh    |           97.57  |
| 3         | Arunachal Pradesh |           23.02  |
| 4         | Assam             |          113.98  |
| 5         | Bihar             |           76.398 |
| 6         | Chhattisgarh      |          112.92  |
| 7         | D & NH            |            0     |
| 8         | Daman and Diu     |            0     |
| 9         | Delhi             |            0     |
| 10        | Goa               |           14.07  |
| 11        | Gujarat           |           41.49  |
| 12        | Haryana           |           86.47  |
| 13        | Himachal Pradesh  |           38.49  |
| 14        | Jammu & Kashmir   |           25.9   |
| 15        | Jharkhand         |           51.45  |
| 16        | Karnataka         |           55.96  |
| 17        | Kerala            |           44.28  |
| 18        | Laddakh           |            0     |
| 19        | Madhya Pradesh    |          121.62  |
| 20        | Maharashtra       |          405.34  |
| 21        | Manipur           |           42.944 |
| 22        | Meghalaya         |            5.51  |
| 23        | Mizoram           |           64.08  |
| 24        | Nagaland          |           65.96  |
| 25        | Odisha            |          104.65  |
| 26        | Puducherry        |            0     |
| 27        | Punjab            |           40.83  |
| 28        | Rajasthan         |          140.76  |
| 29        | Sikkim            |            8.885 |
| 30        | Tamil Nadu        |           50.89  |
| 31        | Telangana         |           48.429 |
| 32        | Tripura           |           54.55  |
| 33        | Uttar Pradesh     |          116.59  |
| 34        | Uttarakhand       |          161.91  |
| 35        | West Bengal       |           47.14  |
| Total     | Total             |         2284     |