capital Newspaper (Photo: Anteneh Aklilu) Ethiopian Roads Authority has been successful in 80 percent of its plan for the first half of the current fiscal year 2020/21; to this end the authority was planning to oversee signage of around 33 road projects with contractors over the stated period. According to Director General of the Ethiopian Roads Authority, Habtamu Tegegne (Eng), lack of inputs, instability in the country and right offs, have been challenges faced by the authority in its operation which has made it slightly impaired in achieving a hundred percent success. As Habtamu said in the first six months of the current fiscal year, the authority has signed a contract for the construction of 21 road projects in different parts of the country with a total cost of 69 billion birr. On Wednesday February 3, 2021, the authority has signed agreements with various contractors for the construction of 8 roads with a total length of 738.19 km at a cost of 18.2 billion birr. Of the total cost, seven of the projects are covered by the government of Ethiopia. Out of the eight road construction projects, five of them are awarded to local construction companies as it stands.