The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Monday said it will partner with institutes like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) for improving the road infrastructure ecosystem. The objective is to leverage the intellectual prudence of students and faculty towards improvement of the road infrastructure ecosystem of the country.
“In its endeavour to provide world-class National Highways (NH) network, NHAI has approached all IITs, National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and reputed engineering colleges to collaborate and adopt nearby stretches of NH, on voluntary basis, as part of Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR),” the NHAI said in a statement.
The institutes along with its faculty and students have better appreciation of local requirement, topography, resource potential, among others, and these vital inputs can be utilised by NHAI during different stages of pre-construction, construction and operation of NH stretches, it said.
