{"id":647049,"date":"2025-09-19T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647049"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:30:38","slug":"nhai-tightens-norms-to-curb-unathorised-subcontracting-of-works-by-highway-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhai-tightens-norms-to-curb-unathorised-subcontracting-of-works-by-highway-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI tightens norms to curb \u2018unathorised\u2019 subcontracting of works by highway builders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a move to ensure quality project execution and reduce delays, NHAI has tightened the norms to check \u201cunathorised\u201d subcontracting of works by main highway builders. It has said that any \u201cunauthorised sub-contracting and subcontracting beyond permissible limits will be classified as \u2018undesirable practice\u2019 and thereby attracting penalties on par with fraudulent practices\u201d.<\/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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a move to ensure quality project execution and reduce delays, NHAI has tightened the norms to check \u201cunathorised\u201d subcontracting of works by main highway builders. It has said that any \u201cunauthorised sub-contracting and subcontracting beyond permissible limits will be classified as \u2018undesirable practice\u2019 and thereby attracting penalties on par with fraudulent practices\u201d. 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.<\/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-647049","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\/647049","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=647049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}