{"id":646853,"date":"2025-09-18T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646853"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:30:20","slug":"nhai-takes-steps-to-curb-unathorised-subcontracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhai-takes-steps-to-curb-unathorised-subcontracting\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI takes steps to curb &#8216;unathorised&#8217; subcontracting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a move to ensure quality project execution and reduce delays, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has tightened norms to check &#8220;unathorised&#8221; subcontracting of works by main highway builders. It has said that any &#8220;unauthorised subcontracting and subcontracting beyond permissible limits will be classified as &#8216;undesirable practice&#8217;, thereby attracting penalties on par with fraudulent practices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The changes in the bid document have been made months after the issue of subcontracting at multiple levels was raised at a meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi. TOI on June 9 had reported about the PM&#8217;s direction to the road transport and highways ministry to formulate &#8220;clear norms and standards&#8221; for subcontractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a move to ensure quality project execution and reduce delays, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has tightened norms to check &#8220;unathorised&#8221; subcontracting of works by main highway builders. It has said that any &#8220;unauthorised subcontracting and subcontracting beyond permissible limits will be classified as &#8216;undesirable practice&#8217;, thereby attracting penalties on par with fraudulent practices&#8221;. The changes in the bid document have been made months after the issue of subcontracting at multiple levels was raised at a meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi. TOI on June 9 had reported about the PM&#8217;s direction to the road transport [&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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646853","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\/646853","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=646853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}