{"id":645091,"date":"2025-09-05T12:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645091"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:57:52","slug":"govt-issues-sop-for-tunnel-alignment-in-nh-projects-mandates-multi-criteria-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-issues-sop-for-tunnel-alignment-in-nh-projects-mandates-multi-criteria-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt issues SOP for tunnel alignment in NH projects, mandates multi-criteria evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) regarding the identification, evaluation, and selection of optimal tunnel alignments for National Highway (NH) projects.<\/p>\n<p>Mandating a structured, data-driven approach for identifying optimal tunnel alignments\u2014particularly for tunnels exceeding 1.5 kilometres in length\u2014the SOP states that authorities must evaluate at least three alignment alternatives based on technical feasibility, environmental compatibility, social impact, and cost-effectiveness before proceeding with a particular alignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) regarding the identification, evaluation, and selection of optimal tunnel alignments for National Highway (NH) projects. Mandating a structured, data-driven approach for identifying optimal tunnel alignments\u2014particularly for tunnels exceeding 1.5 kilometres in length\u2014the SOP states that authorities must evaluate at least three alignment alternatives based on technical feasibility, environmental compatibility, social impact, and cost-effectiveness before proceeding with a particular alignment.<\/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":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645091","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=645091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}