Contiguous availability for road development may be a problem still. Amidst all the noise of land acquisitions delaying highway projects, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is inching closer to acquiring a record 10,000-12,000 hectares in the current fiscal. This is the largest ever land acquisition in a year by the highways regulator.

Yet, this may not be music to many developers because even the large figure does not automatically translate into proportional increase in contiguous land available for development.