NHAI inks MoU with 200 technical institutes
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has inked initial pacts with 200 technical institutes to encourage them for voluntary adoption of highway stretches for research etc, Parliament was informed on Monday.
Out of over 250 such institutes which have consented for the the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), 200 have become signatories.
“NHAI has introduced an initiative to associate with reputed technical Institutes like IITs NITs, AICTE approved engineering colleges for mutual cooperation for dissemination of respective expertise on civil/highway engineering on National Highway Projects,” Road, Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari told Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
