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Workers erecting infrastructure for drawing electric cable lines over railway tracks for use by locomotives on the outskirts of Bangalore in January.
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NEW DELHI - India last year built 36.4km of highway roads per day, up from 28.04km per day the previous year, in what Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari described as a world record in a year of disruptions.
The Covid-19 pandemic saw the country go into a 21-day nationwide lockdown in March last year that brought economic activity to a grinding halt.
