Nitin Gadkari to hold meet on stalled highway projects

Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari will hold a detailed review meeting with top officials across ministries and contractors this month on the stalled highway projects to resolve inter-ministerial issues and fast track the implementation of the projects.

The idea is to substantially reduce the number of stalled road projects, which is the highest among all infrastructure ministries.

The meeting is aimed at preventing further cost and time overruns and to enable the government firm-up fresh milestones, revised cost estimates and revised commissioning schedule for these projects, a senior government official told ET.

According to the official, delays in land acquisition and environmental clearances hinder project execution leading to cost overruns and delays. “Additionally, lack of coordination among different government agencies have hampered implementation of road projects,” the official added. The meeting is also expected to deliberate on issues related to project financing, delays in finalization of scope of the project and delay in technical approvals among other things.

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Nitin Gadkari to hold meet on stalled highway projects (msn.com)