NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India will seek approval from its board for flexibility in awarding road projects and not always go by a formula devised earlier.
When Bharatmala, the government’s flagship highway construction programme, was approved in 2017, the standard operating procedure was to award 60% of the planned roads under the hybrid annuity mode (HAM), 30% as engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts and 10% as build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects.
