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All National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) tenders from August will be through e-tendering only. For the very first time, NHAI has been allowed to raise tax free bonds of Rs 10,000 crore. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based satellite imagery is being used for planning and monitoring of national highways.
Making these announcements on Tuesday, Road Transport and Highways Minister CP Joshi said annual pre-qualification of bidders has been introduced to cut delays. Information and communication technology is being used for greater transparency, accountability and closer interaction with users.
“NHAI is going to take up three pilot projects for e-tendering, which will start from August,” said Joshi, while talking to mediapersons after completing 100 days in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH).
The three pilot projects are Vijayawada-Machlipatnam, Patna-Buxar and Siliguri-Goyakota-Purnea. Talking about other new initiatives taken by him, he said the planning of expressways has been intensified. “We are talking to the state governments. We intend to construct Delhi-Jaipur expressway. We are considering whether we can construct expressway parallel to the railways’ freight corridor,” he said, adding that a decision is likely to taken in a couple of months.
Joshi said since January, NHAI is on the Facebook and so far more than 30,000 users have visited and 971 have registered themselves to participate in discussion and send complaints and suggestions. He also said 145 concession agreements of NHAI are now available on its website for public viewing.
Regarding the new initiatives of his Ministry, Joshi said an apex committee under DDG, NIC has been constituted to carry forward the process of Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) which will facilitate thorough movement of vehicles save fuel and time and plug revenue leakages. He announced that about 10,000 km of roads will be taken for award of contracts in 2011-12 for ensuring minimum achievement of 7300 Km which has been decided as a target by EGoM last month.
The Minister informed that GIS-based satellite imagery is being used for planning and monitoring of national highways. NHAI will implement a pilot project of 1200 km covering country’s far-flung areas. Pilot project will be part of updating the existing GIS and web-based Road Information System (RIS) of 7,000 km which is available on NHAI website.
Making these announcements on Tuesday, Road Transport and Highways Minister CP Joshi said annual pre-qualification of bidders has been introduced to cut delays. Information and communication technology is being used for greater transparency, accountability and closer interaction with users.
“NHAI is going to take up three pilot projects for e-tendering, which will start from August,” said Joshi, while talking to mediapersons after completing 100 days in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH).
The three pilot projects are Vijayawada-Machlipatnam, Patna-Buxar and Siliguri-Goyakota-Purnea. Talking about other new initiatives taken by him, he said the planning of expressways has been intensified. “We are talking to the state governments. We intend to construct Delhi-Jaipur expressway. We are considering whether we can construct expressway parallel to the railways’ freight corridor,” he said, adding that a decision is likely to taken in a couple of months.
Joshi said since January, NHAI is on the Facebook and so far more than 30,000 users have visited and 971 have registered themselves to participate in discussion and send complaints and suggestions. He also said 145 concession agreements of NHAI are now available on its website for public viewing.
Regarding the new initiatives of his Ministry, Joshi said an apex committee under DDG, NIC has been constituted to carry forward the process of Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) which will facilitate thorough movement of vehicles save fuel and time and plug revenue leakages. He announced that about 10,000 km of roads will be taken for award of contracts in 2011-12 for ensuring minimum achievement of 7300 Km which has been decided as a target by EGoM last month.
The Minister informed that GIS-based satellite imagery is being used for planning and monitoring of national highways. NHAI will implement a pilot project of 1200 km covering country’s far-flung areas. Pilot project will be part of updating the existing GIS and web-based Road Information System (RIS) of 7,000 km which is available on NHAI website.
