THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS (SHRI KRISHANPAL GURJAR)
(a) to (c) National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is responsible for development, maintenance and management of National Highways (NH) entrusted to them by the Government and for matters connected or incidental thereto. Details of projects awarded and completed since 2009-2010 is as follows:
Year No. of Awarded Completed projects Length Length awarded (In Km.) (In Km.) 2009-10 39 3379.16 2694.00 2010-11 50 5082.84 1784.00 2011-12 47 6491.00 2248.00 2012-13 11 1115.75 2844.00 2013-14 17 1435.84 1901.00 2014-15 (upto 08 797.13 361.15 June 2014)
(d) NHAI is also mandated to implement National Highways Development Project (NHDP) which is India’s largest ever Highways Project in a phased manner. The overall status of NHDP as on 30th June 2014 is as follows:
NHDP Description Total Length Length To be Phases of Phases Length Completed under awarded in km in km Imp I GQ,NS-EW 7,522 7518 4 - corridors, Port connectivity & others II 4/6-laning 6,647 5791 486 370 North South- East West Corridor, Others III Upgradation, 12,109 6214 4210 1685 4/6-laning IV 2 - laning 20,000 610 5246 8943 with paved shoulders V 6-laning of 6,500 1868 2212 2420 GQ and High density corridor VI Expressways 1000 NIL NIL 1000 VII Ring Roads, 700 km 22 20 659 Bypasses and of ring flyovers and roads/ other bypass+ structures flyovers
(e) Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and NHAI have taken a number of steps for speedy completion of NH projects including streamlining of process of land acquisition and other statutory clearances, securitisation of road sector loans, introduction of revamped dispute resolution mechanism and close coordination with other ministries etc. Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has also de-linked the grant of Environment Clearance from the Forest Clearance for linear projects and treated the strengthening and widening of NH projects differently from the new projects and allowed the construction of the NH in the Non-Forest areas. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also advised all scheduled commercial banks to treat road sector debt as secured within the limits of 90 % of debt due enabling banks to allocate a larger portion of lending to road sector and also to reduce the cost thereon. Concessionaires/developers have also been allowed for harmonious substitution and re-schedulement of Premium quoted by them.
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