The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is an autonomous agency of the Govt of India, responsible for the development and maintenance of National Highways, totalling over 92,851.05 kms in length. It is also responsible for the toll collection on several highways. The current Chairman of NHAI is Mr Raghav Chandra (IAS).
Recent developments in NHAI
1. To cut down on delays in highway projects, NHAI has decentralised power, by authorising regional officers to undertake urgent repair works of up to Rs 1 crore, besides hiring of equipment and workers of up to Rs 10 lakh in a given project.
2. India has over one lakh kilometres of national highways (NHs), but there is no scientific road network pattern and drivers can't take a straight road to reach from one place to the other. To address this, NHAI has prepared a grid of 27 horizontal and vertical national highway corridors at a distance of every 250 km crisscrossing the entire country. All these stretches will be of four lanes and will provide more road space for seamless transport.
3. NHAI has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Space Research Organisation for satellite mapping of highways.
Conclusion
Road construction in India has accelerated to an all-time high pace of 30 kilometres per day. Investor interest in the roads and highways sector has grown in recent months after the govt resolved four major issues responsible for stalled projects or slow progress. Land acquisition has been expedited and in the first five months of this financial year 4,272 sq km have been acquired.
Good roads mean easier proximity & faster development
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