Initiating measures to enhance transparency, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday said it has made mandatory the use of drones for monthly video recording of national highway projects during all stages of development, construction, operation and maintenance. NHAI in a statement said that contractors and Concessionaires shall carry out the drone video recording in presence of Team Leader of the Supervision Consultant and upload comparative project videos of the current and last month on NHAI’s portal ‘Data Lake.’
Supervision consultants shall analyse these videos and will provide their comments on the digital monthly progress reports covering various aspects of the project development, it added.
