Goa, April 11 -- Road construction across Goa has come to a grinding halt, with contractors suspending work amid a steep surge in input costs and mount ing bureaucratic delays, raising con cerns over infrastructure readiness ahead of the monsoon. The All-Goa Road Contractors As sociation announced the decision after a meeting in Margao, warning that projects tendered under old er rates have become financially untenable. Association president Deepak De sai said the spike in material costs - driven in part by global factors - has created an unsustainable gap between estimates and actual ex penditure. "The cost of asphalt has increased significantly, from around Rs 51,000 per tonne to nearly Rs 83,000," he said adding that "execut ing projec...