Faster decision making and stricter monitoring is the prime focus of the government for the implementation of the roads & highways projects in the country. In a recent review meeting at the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to review its projects across the country, Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSME re-emphasized on Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s stress on the need for fast growth of infrastructure. The minister emphasized upon the pressing need to develop a positive, transparent, corruption-free working system with time-bound decision making.
He further stressed on the unacceptability of Delayed decisions ‘as they lead to colossal loss of time and resources, and add to the woes of people’. According to PIB reports, he further directed regional officers to be proactive in coordinating with district officials to fast track land acquisition and other such issues. The report further states how the Minister also talked about the need to bring down construction costs through new technology and innovative means.
He said, “There is enough availability of funds for construction of national highways through various sources including long term funding from banks. However, in order to improve the economic viability of projects, it is necessary to cut down construction costs by employing new materials, innovative technology, and by fast-tracking decision making to avoid associated cost - escalation. Shri Gadkari also stressed upon the need for performance audit and said that officials must ensure that the award and construction targets for the year are fully met.
NHAI’s GIS-based Plantation Monitoring System that assigns a unique digital address to each sapling planted on a national highway, making it possible to monitor its progress and NHAI’s online Toll Remittance Management System today.
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