The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has identified about 300 projects for completion by March 2019, based on a review of over 700 ongoing national highway projects in the country. Of these, about 100 projects are likely to be completed by December 2018. The Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari informed that he, along with Mansukh L Mandavia, the Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways had held extensive, state-wise review of the ongoing highway projects of 20 states in the presence of senior officials from the ministry and related departments.

They reviewed 427 projects of NHAI and 311 projects of NHIDCL and the Road Transport Ministry covering 20 states. As many as 127 NHAI projects and 153 Ministry projects, which are scheduled for completion by June 2019, have now been targeted for expedited completion by March 2019. In addition, there are about 100 projects that are going to be completed by December 2018. The construction target of NHAI for the year 2018-19 has been revised upwards from 5,058 km to 6,000 km. The minister also informed that the projects of Maharashtra and the north eastern states remain to be reviewed, and the meeting for this will be held soon