In an exclusive conversation on Forbes India Pathbreakers, the Union minister of road transport and highways talks about how he wants to transform the country's highway network to boost sustainable development amidst multiple challenges
Talk to any foreign investor, and one of the things they are sure to point out is the relative improvement of the road infrastructure in the world’s most populous country. The connectivity of road and transport plays a critical role in business decisions, and over the past nine years, the total length of national highways increased by 59 percent to 140,679 km in FY23. “Now 40 percent of the country’s traffic is on national highway. The most important challenge for my ministry is how we are going to reduce the logistic cost,” India’s road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari says in an exclusive interview on Forbes India Pathbreakers.