NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will develop wayside amenities at more than 600 locations across 22 states along the National Highways in the next five years, the highways authority said on Wednesday.
\nIt said 130 of these are targeted for development in 2021-22. NHAI has already invited bids to develop 120 such wayside amenities.
\nAs per plan, wayside amenities will be developed every 30-50 km of current and upcoming highways and expressways.
\nThe amenities will include numerous facilities for passengers such as fuel station, electric charging facilities, food court, retail shops, bank ATM, toilets with shower facility, children play area, medical clinic and village haat for local handicrafts.
\nKeeping in view the specific requirements of truckers, separate \u2018truckers blocks\u2019 will be developed at large amenities that will include truck and trailer parking, auto workshop, truckers dormitory, cooking and washing area, toilets with shower, medical clinic, dhaba, retail shops.
\nThe facilities such as electric charging stations will help in promoting use of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will develop wayside amenities at more than 600 locations across 22 states along the National Highways in the next five years, the highways authority said on Wednesday. It said 130 of these are targeted for development in 2021-22. NHAI has already invited bids to develop 120 such wayside amenities. As per plan, wayside amenities will be developed every 30-50 km of current and upcoming highways and expressways. The amenities will include numerous facilities for passengers such as fuel station, electric charging facilities, food court, retail shops, bank ATM, toilets with shower […]<\/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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407283","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=407283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}