NHAI aims to directly access construction data to resolve disputes

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) would like to directly access data from construction equipment players that would lower disputes among various stakeholders involved in road construction. The disputes relate to the extent of work done on the ground.

Construction equipment makers are indirect stakeholders of NHAI. Broadly, NHAI awards highway construction, development or maintenance work to road developers or contractors, who, in turn, buy or lease construction equipment to construct or widen roads.

“We have a vision that NHAI and contractors should set up a system so that their systems and ours work together, constantly updating the work done on the ground, eliminating all sorts of disputes – including those that involve parties arguing about different levels of deployment (of material and machinery required to build a road),”