The Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry is unlikely to meet the target of awarding contracts for developing 9,500 km of roads by March end in view of the economic slowdown and delays in environment clearances.
A Road Transport Ministry official told a leading news agency that the performance of the ministry has suddenly come to a very poor low this fiscal and it would not be able to award 9,500 km of projects by the end of 2012-13.
The contracts for only 1,100 km could be given by the government in the first three quarters of the fiscal. The official attributed the delays to a number of reasons including hardships in securing green clearances, problems in land acquisition and a slowdown in the economy.
The ministry as well as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) are already facing problems because of major infrastructure firms pulling out of projects.
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