Govt to award Rs 90,000 crore highway contracts this fiscal

17 Apr 2013 Evaluate

In a move to improve the road infrastructure of the country, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is targeting national highway contract awards worth about Rs 90,000 crore for this fiscal spanning around 7,300 km. Projects spanning around 3,800 km (or 52% of the total length) will be awarded from this month to September.

Following the poor response to the public-private partnership or PPP model in last fiscal, the ministry plans to award more than 50% of projects on engineering procurement contract (EPC) basis this fiscal. EPC could help rejuvenate the road construction industry. So the ministry has already prepared a model concession project for EPC projects.

In the last fiscal, national highway contract awards were dismal, like during the 2008-09 slowdown, projects spanning a mere 787 km were awarded, only slightly better than the 600 km awarded in 2008-09. Lack of equity with road construction companies and macroeconomic slowdown were the major reasons behind the poor show.     

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