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The recently released Asset Monetisation Strategy Document for the road sector released by the National Highways Authority of India is expected to strengthen the quality, longevity, and technological advancement of India’s road network. The opening up the assets to private investment will accelerate infrastructure development while ensuring financial sustainability. The strategy is based on principles like maximising the value of ...

  AI is also playing a transformative role. From detecting cloned FASTags to identifying abnormal toll transactions, AI-driven systems enhance fraud detection, monitor infrastructure health, and secure cloud-based toll platforms. India is actively integrating these tools, with NHAI deploying AI-enabled surveillance, FASTag audits, and enforcing data localization for compliance. In today’s digital highway ecosystem, staying ahead of cyber threats means ...

The National Highways Authority of India has clarified that users’ experience on highway toll plazas will not be impacted with the implementation of new norms on FASTag transactions. The National Payments Corporation of India had recently introduced a new regulation connected to delayed transactions due to inactive FASTags at toll plazas. The rules have come into effect on February 17. ...

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is advancing a corridor-based strategy for highway development, focusing on consistent standards, user convenience, and logistics efficiency. Leveraging GSTN and toll data, a 50,000-km high-speed highway corridor network has been identified as critical to India’s goal of becoming a $30 trillion economy by 2047. By FY25, MoRTH targets 4,827 km of operational ...

National Highways Authority of India  has signed MoUs  with 200 technical institutes to encourage them for voluntary adoption of highway stretches for research. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has stated that   NHAI has introduced an initiative to associate with reputed Institutes like IITs NITs and  AICTE approved engineering colleges for mutual cooperation for the dissemination of respective expertise on ...

The government is considering to compensate toll operators for the losses incurred in the wake of suspension of toll charges on national highways. As per the reports National Highways Authority of India is likely to make payments to toll operators for the losses incurred during the period. The NHAI had rolled out the electronic toll collection programme across India in ...

Dilip Buildcon has bagged Rs 860.50Cr four-lane road project in Chhattisgarh from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). “The company has received the letter of acceptance (LOA) on March 18, 2020, from the NHAI for the new Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) project in the state of Chhattisgarh,” the company said in a regulatory filing.

Senior IAS officer Sanjeev Ranjan has been named secretary of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH),  he will take over as MoRTH secretary with effect from 1 April 2019 upon superannuation of Yudhvir Singh Malik by the end of this month. Ranjan, a 1985-batch IAS officer of Tripura cadre, is at present the chairman of National Highways Authority of ...

Deepak Kumar, Chairman of National Highways Authority of India launched a new multilingual website of the organization. The general public would be able to rate the National Highways through this website within two months. The chairman also launched a Project Monitoring Information System (PMIS) Mobile App that will facilitate close, in-house monitoring of NHAI projects on a mobile phone. NHAI ...

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) set to roll out an ‘incident management system’. Under the system, ambulances will be positioned every 50kms to be able to respond to any accident within 15 minutes of it being informed on a national accident helpline. The first phase will be rolled out in December this year, which will target the national highways ...