India, April 3 -- The Mumbai-Goa National Highway (NH) - 66 will be completed by September 2025, the Union government told the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said the project got deferred due to delays in land acquisition and other pre-construction activities as well as cash flow issues with some of the contractors. However, he said, all pending issues have been substantially resolved in close co-ordination with the state government and the balance works are under implementation.

He detailed that the construction of flyovers at Lanja and Pali got delayed due to land acquisition issues while the work of Chiplun Flyover was delayed due to collapse of one span.

"The land acquisition iss...