Annual Report 2018-19 Narrow Road Ahead

• District Roads 5,86,181 km

• Rural Roads 41,66,916 km
• Urban Roads 5,26,483 km
• Project Roads 3,28,986 km
• As on 31st March,2017, National Highways comprised of 1.94 % of total road network in the
country, State Highways 2.97 per cent during the same period and the share of rural roads
(including JRY)was the highest at 70.65% followed by District roads (9.94%) and Urban roads
(8.93 %). The percentage of surfaced roads to total road length was 63.2%.
• The total road length of the country increased signicantly from 3.99 lakh km in 1951 to 58.98
lakh km in 2017, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 4.2%. Category-
wise break-up of total road length from 1951 to 2017 is at Appendix 15.
• As per Report titled 'Review and Performance of State Road Transport Undertaking' for the
nancial period 2016-2017, 55 SRTU's out of a total of 70 SRTUs (including six Associate
Members and six Special Purpose vehicles) reported their physical and nancial performance
in 2016-17 as against 47 SRTU's in 2015-16.
• The loss reported by 55 SRTU's in 2016-17 was of the order ₹ 14213.34 crore (provisional) as
against ₹ 11805.45 crores reported by 55 SRTUs in 2015-16 showing an increase in losses by
20.40 per cent. Though there is not much change in the physical performance of the SRTUs,
the total revenue earned by the SRTUs registered a marginal increase of 2.51 percent which
was more than neutralized by the increase in cost by about 5.7%, resulting in enhanced losses
in 2017 Appendix 16.
• The net prots/losses of STRUs depend upon underlying operational efciency parameters
within each SRTU such as eet vintage, eet utilisation, occupancy ratio, staff productivity,
etc.

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