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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has said highway construction grew 20% in FY24 to its highest ever in a fiscal year..
The state-owned highway developer built 6,644 km of national highways in FY24 against the target of 6,544 km..
In FY23, NHAI built 5,544 km of national highways..
With only 9,088 km of new highways built as of February-end overall highway construction may miss the target of 13,814 km by a wide margin, though the ministry of road transport and highways said it remains optimistic about ending FY24 with 12,000-13,000 km of new highways..
In the first 11 months of FY24that's up to February-end9,088 km of highways had been constructed, more than the previous year's 8,064 km..
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