1 trillion ($15.3 billion) in the 12 months through March, climbing from Rs 600 billion a year ago, Alok Deora, a Mumbai-based infrastructure research analyst at IIFL Wealth Management estimated in a phone interview.

“Going by the tender pipeline, the breakneck pace of NHAI order flows is likely to continue in the next financial year,” he said.

NHAI is at the center of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Bharatmala plan to spend $106 billion on 83,677 kilometers of road construction by 2022 to boost economic growth and employment. Contract awards were in the slow lane till December, meeting just over a tenth of a the full-year target of 10,000 kilometers, due to delays in land acquisition and the roll-out of a nationwide sales tax.

Dilip Buildcon has bagged the largest numberRita, the wife of Florjohn Cruz, looks at his body inside a coffin after his autopsy at Eusebio Funeral Service in Manila, Philippines October 28, 2016. Photo by Damir Sagolj, Reuters

MANILA - It's a Friday morning in late October, and Florjohn Cruz's body lies on a metal table at a funeral parlor in the Philippine capital of Manila. A forensics team is about to perform an autopsy on him - his second.

His widow, Rita, glances at the tidy stitches running up his torso from the previous examination. Then she poses for the picture that will serve as proof of Florjohn's identity in the report being compiled on his death by the Philippines' Commission on Human Rights (CHR).

Rita, who had been separated from her husband for more than a