Engineering Procurement and Construction
Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari has said awarding contracts to build roads through the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) route would revive the confidence of private developers. Following this, he feels, the public-private partnership mode would gain currency automatically. Gadkari said this during an interview, when asked whether the road ministry’s recent preference for EPC [...] Continue Reading »
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will soon relax its norms while issuing fresh contracts for the road construction projects in Jharkhand and other Maoist-hit states. Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari, while addressing media through a video conference from Delhi, said in some pockets of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, several road [...] Continue Reading »
After a lull of several months, road projects have now got off the ground. In the last month, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has lined up about Rs.8, 700 crore worth of projects for tendering via the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) route. Although this proposes to build only 1,000km, a minuscule portion [...] Continue Reading »
The newly-constituted highway committee under Roads Secretary Vijay Chibber will hold its first meeting on September 13. The committee comprises representatives from the Planning Commission and the Finance Ministry. Set up in accordance with the directions of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), the new committee has been formed to give the Roads Ministry [...] Continue Reading »
The government is redesigning the way highways projects are allocated based on the assessment of their viability. This step is taken to fast track the awarding of the highway projects, and thereby expediting the construction process. This move might be good for the infrastructure development of the country. According to the sources, projects would now [...] Continue Reading »
