Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, delivers a speech during an event celebrating the nation's Independence Day at Red Fort in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. - Bloomberg
MUMBAI: India’s path to economic recovery faces another obstacle, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking the state road builder to stop constructing highways after its debt ballooned almost seven-fold over the past five years.
"National Highways Authority of India totally logjammed with unplanned and excessive expansion of roads, ” the prime minister’s office wrote to NHAI in a letter dated Aug. 17.
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