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8.42 Total investment in the Roads and Highway sector has gone up more than three times in
the six years period from FY15 to FY20 (Table 10), which also led to increased road density
across the states (Figure 29).

Table 10: Details of total investment on road construction in India (` crores)

Heads FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21*
Total Budgetary Support 29359 45949 49172 59636 76137 75853 45508

IEBR 3343 23281 33118 50533 61217 74988 17128
Private Sector investment 19232 29770 16029 16501 21605 21926 6029
Total Investment 51935 99000 98319 126670 158959 172767 68665

* Upto September 2020.
Source: MoRTH.

Figure 29: Road Density per thousand square kilometre by States (as on March-2018)

200
180
National State Total
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
JK DL JH TE CG OR HP MP RJ WB UP MZ AS MG PJ BH INDIA HR MN GJ AP PUD NG UK KA TN GO KE SK TR MH ARP

Source: Survey calculations based on MoRTH data.

Civil Aviation

8.43 The aviation market of India is one of the fastest growing in the world. India’s domestic
traffic has more than doubled from around 61 million in FY14 to around 137 million in FY20,
a growth of over 14 per cent per annum. From the third largest domestic aviation market, it is
expected to become the third largest overall (including domestic and international traffic) by the
year FY25. The performance indicators of civil aviation sector is presented in Figure 30A to 30D.

8.44 Despite the severe challenges posed by Covid-19, the Indian aviation industry has
persevered through the crisis and demonstrated long-term resilience and full commitment to
serve. The Vande Bharat Mission was launched on 7 May 2020 to evacuate stranded Indians
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across the world. It has thus reported over 30 lakhs passenger arrivals by 13 December 2020,
with over 27 lakhs facilitated through chartered flights and Air India Group, making it the largest
evacuation mission in human history (Figure 31a). The air cargos took the lead in transporting