May 11, 2011 – India’s rutted, potholed roads are the bane of many a traveller, not to mention its entire logistics systems. In a country where many reforms are highly contentious and controversial, Indians are united on the need for more and better roads to help them get to where they are going – and to facilitate the faster transport of everything from farm produce to electronics from place to place.
India’s Congress Party-led government had once set an target of building 20kms of new roads every day. However, the government appears to be on the slow road to road-building – far short of its desired speed. | READ MORE
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