NHAI follows roads to states
In a bid to introduce more efficiency in project execution, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has appointed state-wise nodal persons from its cadre to monitor projects.
By Priyanka Talwar, TNN |
NEW DELHI: In a bid to introduce more efficiency in project execution, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has appointed state-wise nodal persons from its cadre to monitor projects.
“Senior NHAI officers would now be accountable for implementation of highway projects in their respective states. Nine chief general managers (CGM) have been made responsible for co-ordinating all highway related issues such as corridor management, tolling operations, parliamentary issues and pre-construction activities, with the state governments,” a source in the Authority said.
According to the sources, these administrative changes have been introduced with a view to ensure effective monitoring and timely completion of projects. With this arrangement, it is felt, CGMs would have first-hand knowledge of various contractual issues and issues related to the state government assigned to him, it said.
So far, CGMs were allocated work corridor-wise according to the different phases of the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP). However, the present arrangement did not serve the objective of having effective management of projects in a state.
This objective would be better served if senior officers were made directly responsible for implementing all projects in a state under all phases of NHDP, it said. Apart from managing and implementing all NHDP work in a state, the officer would be in charge of co-ordination with the state and central government departments.
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