Roads & Bridges

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a bearing on almost all infrastructure sectors and the road sector is no exception. While road developers and contractors have been facing a slump in revenues and profitability, implementation models […]

The year 2019-20 was an odd one for highway construction in India, with the pace of work slowing down for the first time since 2014. While market sentiment has not been favourable for several sectors, […]

COVID-19 has had a severe impact on the Indian road sector. Even as several highway developers have resumed work, disrupted supplies of key inputs such as steel, cement and bitumen continue to hamper construction work. […]

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is committed to providing a safe and smooth ride to commuters on national highways. The authority was able to accomplish the construction of 3,979 km of national highways […]

The road sector in India has adopted the asset recycling concept through the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model, with the aim of generating resources for future highway construction. Asset recycling has the advantage of low construction risk […]

The Uttar Pradesh Industrial Expressways Development Authority (UPIEDA) has been playing an active role in terms of pushing forward the state government’s expressway development agenda. The state has the country’s longest expressway network with two […]

Over the five years since starting operations, National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) has taken rapid strides in the development of road infrastructure in the Northeast. The corporation promotes, surveys, establishes, designs, builds, […]

The hybrid annuity model (HAM) was launched in 2016, seeking to revive private sector investment in the road sector that had dried up due to the inability of the build-operate-transfer model to attract investors. In […]

The central government has been quite ambitious when it comes to integrating advanced technologies with highway operations. Tolling has been a priority area for the government in the past few years and a nation-wide electronic […]

Application of digital technology can play a key role in solving some of the issues facing the Indian road industry. The industry is slowly moving from computer-aided designs to building information modelling (BIM), and eventually […]

Uttar Pradesh has emerged as one of the most active states in terms of pushing forward its expressway development agenda. Some of the key expressways developed by the state government are the Agra-Lucknow expressway and […]

The road sector has witnessed a sea change over the past decade. The launch of the Bharatmala programme has further heightened activity levels in the sector, both in terms of award as well as execution […]

Several government agencies are promoting the use of environmentally sustainable materials for the construction of pavements. At a recent conference organised by India Infrastructure, key government stakeholders analysed the trends and advancements in the construction […]

Pavement sustainability has been accorded the utmost importance in recent times. However, the construction industry has faced a number of issues related to the adoption of new and innovative materials and techniques. At a recent […]

The roads and highways sector is a key priority area in the government’s infrastructure development agenda. The sector is witnessing increased pace of project award and completion. Moreover, the government’s flagship programme, Bharatmala, is expected […]

Land acquisition has been a perennial issue faced by road projects. It is considered to be the root cause for delays in project implementation. A number of steps have been taken to expedite the acquisition […]

The new government has once again lined up big plans for the road sector. Plans are in place to resume work on all the stalled highway projects within 100 days of coming to power. The […]

The past year saw developments across the entire maritime chain – ports, shipping, shipbuilding, coastal shipping and inland water transport (IWT). Progress was documented in project award and completion, the start of new construction works, […]

The road sector has shown significant progress during the past year. The government launched a number of crucial projects to remove pre-construction bottlenecks, facilitate digital transformation, increase transparency and expedite processes. The year also saw […]