{"id":649343,"date":"2025-10-13T10:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649343"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:08:50","slug":"centre-to-link-highway-awards-to-returns-based-on-fastag-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-to-link-highway-awards-to-returns-based-on-fastag-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre to link highway awards to returns, based on FASTag data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Centre plans to mandate awarding new highway projects under the build-operate-transfer (BoT) model if the traffic data, generated through the electronic toll collection system FASTag, shows that private developers can earn at least 15% annual returns from toll collections, two people aware of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Less remunerative projects, such as highway contracts showing less than 15% annual returns, will be awarded under hybrid annuity model (HAM) or engineering, procurement construction (EPC) route, where the government bears full or partial construction risk and funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Centre plans to mandate awarding new highway projects under the build-operate-transfer (BoT) model if the traffic data, generated through the electronic toll collection system FASTag, shows that private developers can earn at least 15% annual returns from toll collections, two people aware of the matter said. Less remunerative projects, such as highway contracts showing less than 15% annual returns, will be awarded under hybrid annuity model (HAM) or engineering, procurement construction (EPC) route, where the government bears full or partial construction risk and funding.<\/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":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649343","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=649343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}