Roads and Bridges

To provide uninterrupted passage to tankers and containers carrying LMO across national highways, NHAI has exempted the user fee for such vehicles at toll plazas. Keeping in view the current unprecedented demand for medical oxygen […]

To improve road safety, all new national highways being developed under NHAI will have an advanced traffic management system (ATMS). The ATMS will include immediate location identification of areas where traffic bottlenecks occur due to […]

The MoRTH has set a target of road construction worth Rs 15 trillion over the next two years. The ministry is confident that it will achieve the target of 40 km per day of highway […]

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, NHAI has set an ambitious target to build new highways with a combined length of 4,600 km in the current fiscal year. In the previous fiscal, NHAI had […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has called upon major highway builders and private companies to look into floating an infrastructure finance fund or non-banking financial company to fund road projects. As per […]

The maiden infrastructure Investment trust (InvIT) promoted by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), through which it aims to raise Rs 51 billion, is likely to be launched by June 2021. However, the NHAI […]

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 […]