Tech institutes collaborate with NHAI for adoption of highway stretches
The best brains in India’s reputed technology institutes will “adopt” national highways and work with the National Highways Authority of India in its endeavour to create a network of world class highways in the country.
Eighteen IITs, 26 National Institutes of Technology, and 190 other reputed engineering colleges across India have agreed to collaborate with India’s national highways builder under an initiative wherein they adopt a stretch of national highway nearby and exchange notes with the NHAI on the latest in innovations and new technologies in making and maintaining highways.
About 200 institutes have already signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Over 300 institutes are expected to collaborate to adopt national highway (NH) stretches, the HHAI said in a statement Friday.
