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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
‘NHAI was conceived as an organisation with only a core team to take decisions … all other activities are outsourced’
May 2, 2021, 8:49 PM IST
A selection of interviews that appear in TOI.
Road work as represented by national highways (NHs) did not slow down last year. Chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI),
SS Sandhu
about the current year’s prospects:
NH construction peaked in 2020-21 despite the first spell of Covid-19. How will the second wave impact work?
Despite losing the best construction months to Covid-related lockdown, NHAI constructed 4,192km of NHs last year and this is the highest ever highway construction achieved in a financial year by us. Focus has been on creating expressways of 6 or more lanes which require more efforts and resources as compared to earlier 2-4 lane highways. NHAI has constructed 18,500 lane km during 2020-21 which comes out to over 50 lane km per day. At present, the country is battling a second wave. We are taking stock of the situation and are assessing the impact it will have on different projects across states.