NHAI told to attract private investment, but 4 key member posts lying vacant

NEW DELHI: At a time when the Centre has asked the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to attract more private investments in road building and bid out additional projects, posts of four key members at the agency have been lying vacant. And, the post of member in-charge of public-private partnership (PPP) has been lying vacant for over a year.

Officials said the NHAI is trying to bid out more projects under PPP models such as ‘Build, Operate and Transfer’ (BOT). It has started identifying financially viable projects for which bids can be called on priority. It has also prepared bunches of completed highway projects with total length of 5,000 km that will be bid out to private players for 20-30 years.