500-tonne waste to help build 100km of highways by October-end

NEW DELHI: At least 500 tons of single use plastic (SUP), particularly waste polythene, will be used in building nearly 100 km of highways by October-end, a top NHAI official said. To achieve this, the government’s highway building agency has, for the first time, taken the ‘risk performance’ of roads which will be built using plastic on itself rather than holding the contractor responsible for poor performance.

This is one of the priorities that the road ministry has undertaken under the government’s drive to shun the use of SUP.

In a circular, the NHAI said, “The risk of performance of wearing course (top layer) in the identified stretches would be taken by NHAI for which post-construction performance monitoring of the identified stretches would be undertaken by regional officers through independent engineers with the help of using network survey vehicles twice a year.”