The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is likely to fall short of its target of road construction for the current fiscal, and what's more the execution rate declined by 17 per cent to 3.41 km per day during the first eight months of FY15 from 4.14 km per day during the same period in the preceding year.
According to a recent analysis by credit rating firm ICRA, the NHAI has awarded 1,572 km of contracts during eight months of FY 15 (April-Nov ember 2014), while it had set itself a target of 5,500 km for FY 15, 35 per cent of which was earmarked for Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) segment and rest for Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) mode.