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NHAI Awarded Projects Worth Rs 1.22 Lakh Crore In FY18
Road projects awarded by NHAI at an all-time high in FY18.
31 Mar 2018, 08:09 PM IST 
Traffic moves along a National Highway as road construction takes place India (Photographer: Namas Bhojani/Bloomberg)
The National Highways Authority of India today said it has awarded projects worth Rs 1.22 lakh crore in the year ended March 2018.
NHAI awarded 150 road projects for constructing about 7,400 kilometres of highways, it said in a statement. “The length of projects awarded in FY 2017-18 is an all-time high and a record achievement by NHAI since its inception in 1995.”
The average length of road projects awarded by NHAI in the last five years was 2,860 kilometres.
The projects awarded by the NHAI in FY18 include:
- 1,234 km in Rajasthan
- 739 km in Maharashtra
- 747 km in Odisha
- 725 km in Uttar Pradesh
- 511 km in Tamil Nadu
- 504 km in Andhra Pradesh
- 468 km in Karnataka
- 449 Km in Gujarat
- 389 km in Madhya Pradesh
- 331 km in Haryana
- 232 km in Bihar
- 201 km in Jharkhand
- 189 km in Telangana
- 126 km in West Bengal
- 120 km in Punjab
- 100 km in J&K