{"id":379082,"date":"2020-10-17T12:52:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T07:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=379082"},"modified":"2020-10-17T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T07:27:00","slug":"construction-of-highways-gets-big-push-modi-govt-relaxes-bot-ham-norms-to-attract-more-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/construction-of-highways-gets-big-push-modi-govt-relaxes-bot-ham-norms-to-attract-more-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of highways gets big push! Modi govt relaxes BOT\/HAM norms to attract more participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that will attract more participation in the construction of highways, the government has relaxed technical and financial qualifications for bidders of national highway projects under hybrid annuity mode (HAM) and builds, operate, transfer (BOT) mode.<\/p>\n<p>Under the modified rules, a bidder will be qualified to bid for a HAM project if it has a minimum net worth of 15% of the estimated project cost (EPC) at the close of the preceding financial year. Earlier, it was 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Also, for both HAM and BOT projects, \u201cthe capital cost of the project should be more than 5% of the amount specified as the estimated project cost,\u201d the ministry of road transport and highways said in a notification. This was \u201cmore than 10%\u201d earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that will attract more participation in the construction of highways, the government has relaxed technical and financial qualifications for bidders of national highway projects under hybrid annuity mode (HAM) and builds, operate, transfer (BOT) mode. Under the modified rules, a bidder will be qualified to bid for a HAM project if it has a minimum net worth of 15% of the estimated project cost (EPC) at the close of the preceding financial year. Earlier, it was 25%. Also, for both HAM and BOT projects, \u201cthe capital cost of the project should be more than 5% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379082","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}