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India seeking to resume road works, some plants in lockdown

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India is seeking ways to resume construction of highways and arterial roads in districts least impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, and some factories as it charts out a plan to revive Asia’s third-largest economy.

Builders were constructing 31 kilometers (19.3 miles) of roads a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the lockdown starting March 25.

India plans to spend $12 billion to build 15,500 km of highways in the new financial year started April 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced in her budget speech on Feb.

1. “We need to see if there’s a way to start work to ensure employment for at least a section of daily wage workers," Nitin Gadkari, India’s minister for roads and small and medium industries said in an

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