NHAI revamp in the offing; large-scale reforms needed: Nitin Gadkari

The government is taking steps to revamp the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and large-scale reforms are needed further, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday.

NHAI has been mandated the task to develop, maintain, and manage National Highways, the arterial roads of the country, for inter-state movement of passengers and goods.

The total length of National Highways at present is abut 150,000 km, about 2 per cent of the length of all the roads, but they carry about 40 per cent of the total traffic.

"We are taking steps for revamp of NHAI....major reforms are needed in the