Nine road projects cleared by PPP appraisal committee

November 1, 2006

NEW DELHI, NOV 1: Road sector projects seem to be on the fast track with the public private partnership appraisal committee (PPP-AC) clearing nine road projects in its second meeting on Wednesday.

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Roads to nowhere

November 1, 2006

What is the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP)? As originally contemplated under the NDA government, there was the golden quadrilateral (Phase I) and the North-South and East-West corridors (Phase II). We had a deadline of December 2003 for Phase I and a deadline of December 2008 for Phase II. We are pretty close to December 2006 and Phase I is far from over.

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New path or alleyway

October 12, 2006

Are contractual ‘innovations’ holding up the showpiece highway project?

It continues to be a slow trudge on the fast lane. Barely 35 per cent of the contracts for the North-South East-West corridor (NHDP-II) have been awarded. This lethargy in the awarding of contracts by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), under the UPA, is predictably bound to lead to long delays in the construction of the highway network across the country.

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