higher than what was targeted. India is now constructing 37 KMs of national highways per day!From PM Gati Shakti, the national master plan for multi modal connectivity to the fast tracking metro & smart city development India is on a roll with infrastructure development in the country. On the other hand, Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India, is concocting a silent revolution in Road development. According to the data divulged by the NHAI, the annual average construction of national highways has recorded an 83 percent spike compared to the pace of highway construction before Gadkari's time. The numbers show that the annual average construction

of highways was 4,918KM during 2009-2014, which implies 13KM per day. In FY21, the NHAI targeted constructing 11,000KM of the highway by covering 30KM per day. But in somewhat a first in the infrastructure projects in the country, the actual construction exceeded the target and achieved 13,327KM 21 percent.

However the aforementioned is not just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the pioneering aspects of NHAI's latest endeavors. Last year, NHAI hit the spotlight by setting a record by laying 25.54 kilometers of road in a short span of 17:45 hours on the Solapur-Bijapur section on National Highway 13 with the help of its partner IJM India Infrastructure Limited. Not to mention the commissioning of 340.8 km long, 6 lane wide Purvanchal Expressway, India's longest expressway that incorporates a 3.2 KM long emergency Airstrip in an impressive 36 months, inaugurating it by landing a C-130 Hercules plane carrying Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

So what changed? The answer to this question lies in the minister's tech-savvy mindset that triggered the organization's complete digital transformation. The technology advantage in engineering has also helped significantly, and the credit goes to a bunch of engineering technology companies and leaders