Overview
- The average construction pace on national highways slowed to 29 km per day in FY2024-25, down from 34 km in FY2023-24 and 37 km in 2020-21.
- Authorities completed 10,660 km of new highways last year and have 1,240 projects spanning 29,400 km under way at a cost of ₹7.8 lakh crore.
- National highways recorded 26,770 fatalities by June 2025, an average of six deaths per hour and roughly half of the 52,609 fatalities logged for all of 2024.
- The National Highways Authority of India has deployed Advanced Traffic Management Systems and AI-enabled incident detection on high-density corridors and consolidated crash data in the eDAR portal.
- Road safety audits have examined 112,561 km of highways over three years, with short-term measures applied at 8,542 black spots and long-term corrective works initiated at 3,144 sites.