ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN INDIA TOUCHING RECORD 30 KM PER DAY

HIGHLIGHTS

• Under the Bharatmala Pariyojna, nationwide road construction in India is touching record 30 km per day
• At a cost of about ? 5.35 hundred-thousand billion Indian government has envisaged building 34,800 km of highways.

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ENDLESS EXPRESSWAYS AT THROWAWAY PRICES LURES DOMESTIC COMPANIES SIDELINING CHINA

• The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which monetizes operating assets through the Toll-Operate-Transfer (TOT) model, gives long-term tolling rights to those on the lookout for a breakthrough deal against a lump sum payment.
• There is a lesson for the Chinese in this ...

FASTags will be mandatory for all the vehicles from December 2019

As announced by the Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, FASTag will be mandatory for all the private as well commercial vehicles from December this year. 

This new system will enable digital payment of toll collection on National Highways. A FASTag is basically a...