The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday said it has awarded 40 national highway projects, totalling 1,330 km, with a capital cost of Rs 47,289 crore in the first half of the current fiscal. In the April-August period of the last fiscal, the authority had awarded 828 km national highway projects.
The capital cost includes the cost of civil work, land acquisition, and other pre-construction activities. Of the 40 projects awarded till September, 24 were awarded through the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) mode and the remaining on the hybrid annuity model (HAM) mode.
