{"id":650285,"date":"2025-10-28T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650285"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:19:03","slug":"streamlined-bidding-and-oversight-help-nhai-save-over-rs-2000-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/streamlined-bidding-and-oversight-help-nhai-save-over-rs-2000-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Streamlined bidding and oversight help NHAI save over Rs 2,000 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has saved over Rs 2,000 crore by taking systemic measures, including timely bid out of contracts, eliminating three-month short-term contracts and doing away with provision that gave \u2018windfall\u2019 gain, to reduce what it pays as a charge to private toll collection agencies for carrying out this task.<\/p>\n<p>While the highways authority ended up paying 17.3% of toll revenue as collection charges to these agencies earlier, this has now been brought down to 9.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has saved over Rs 2,000 crore by taking systemic measures, including timely bid out of contracts, eliminating three-month short-term contracts and doing away with provision that gave \u2018windfall\u2019 gain, to reduce what it pays as a charge to private toll collection agencies for carrying out this task. While the highways authority ended up paying 17.3% of toll revenue as collection charges to these agencies earlier, this has now been brought down to 9.3%.<\/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-650285","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\/650285","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=650285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}