India, which loses almost 1.5 lakh lives every year on account of road accidents, is revising its target to drop the extent of road fatalities by half by 2025 or earlier, instead of the earlier target of 2030, said Gadkari. He cited Tamil Nadu's example recording a continuous drop in road accidents and deaths in the last three-four years.

"It's okay to miss road construction targets, but we should try and meet the target of saving lives from road accidents and deaths earlier…," said Gadkari, pointing out that targeting reduction by half means seeing 75,000 deaths every year till 2030.