Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, announced on 3 April, that the government has adopted a new method to measure its highways. Instead of the earlier used traditional linear method, the government has now shifted to the lane-kilometre concept, reported Hindustan Times (HT).

Under this new concept, the length of each road that is built is measured instead of counting the overall length of the highway. For instance if a 4-lane highway of one km is constructed it will be considered a four km road. At present irrespective of the number of the lanes, it is considered one lane, reported HT.

Government officials and experts believe that this will help in capturing the actual length of the highways constructed in the country.