Roads and Bridges

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has raised around Rs 6.4 billion more than the base price for the fifth round of its toll-operate-transfer auctions. The authority received bids worth Rs 22.62 billion, against […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has released the ratings for 18,668 km of completed four/six-lane national highway stretches, covering 343 toll plazas. Each toll plaza has been judged based on three major […]

The MoRTH has begun real-time monitoring of toll plazas across the country to deal with traffic congestion at toll plazas/city roads/highways. To this end, it is using a central monitoring system along with an analytics […]

In line with its commitment to adopt technology to enhance transparency and accountability, NHAI has deployed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based face recognition system to monitor the attendance of field staff. The system also comes with […]

Expressing its displeasure over a Rs 971.15 billion debt servicing liability on NHAI, a parliamentary panel has asked the authority to explore restructuring of its existing debt and look for options to raise long-term funds […]

The MoRTH has decided that all lanes in the fee plazas on national highways shall be declared as FASTag lanes, with effect from February 16, 2021. As  per NH Fee Rules, 2008, any vehicle not […]

The MoRTH has come out with a new policy for the development of wayside amenities along the national highways and expressways, on land belonging to NHAI or a private party. The new policy mandates grant […]

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has started planning for Phase II of the Bharatmala Pariyojana and has identified roads with a cumulative length of 5,000 km to be built under the project. NHAI […]

The InvIT by NHAI, which is expected to enter the market by the end of this fiscal year, is likely to undergo changes to suit prospective bidders better. The government is awaiting approval from the […]

Bharat Road Network Limited (BRNL) has signed an agreement with India Highway Concession Trust, an infrastructure investment trust set up by CDPQ, a global investor, for the sale of a build-operate-transfer road project in Odisha. […]

NHAI is planning to deploy software to track files, curb red-tapism and enhance transparency. Besides, it will soon introduce a project management consultancy system to provide alignment, land acquisition, forest environment clearance, utility shifting, construction, […]

The MoRTH has introduced GPS-based toll collection to ensure seamless movement of vehicles across the country. With this, the country is expected to become toll-booth-free in the next two years. In the new system, the […]

The central government has signed a $500 million loan agreement with the World Bank to develop safe and green national highway corridors in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The Green National Highways […]

The MoRTH has extended the deadline for 100 per cent collection of toll charges on the national highway network through FASTag till February 15, 2021. Earlier, the deadline had been set at January 1, 2021. […]

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is expected to operationalise the country’s first government-sponsored infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) by March 2021. Reportedly, about six road assets worth Rs 50 billion have received in-principle approval […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has come up with a year-end review of the road sector. The length of national highways has increased from 91,287 km in April 2014 to about 136,155 […]

NHAI has announced that the number of FASTag users in the country has crossed the 20 million mark, registering a growth of 400 per cent in a year. This has increased the total toll collection […]

Reportedly, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services [IL&FS] Limited has finalised the infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) structure for its road assets in order to resolve its debt of about Rs 150 billion. IL&FS has set up […]

The pace of award of national highway projects almost doubled during April-October 2020, as compared to the previous year, despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Reportedly, highway project awards for April-October 2020 reached 5,679 km, as […]