{"id":324474,"date":"2020-01-28T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=324474"},"modified":"2020-01-28T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:53:06","slug":"nhai-seeks-flexibility-in-mode-of-project-award-to-focus-on-epc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhai-seeks-flexibility-in-mode-of-project-award-to-focus-on-epc\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI seeks flexibility in mode of project award, to focus on EPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>When Bharatmala, the government\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}