{"id":654786,"date":"2025-12-02T12:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=654786"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:58:21","slug":"govt-brings-new-ratings-framework-for-highway-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-brings-new-ratings-framework-for-highway-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt brings new ratings framework for highway builders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has proposed a new methodology to assess contractors and concessionaires executing national highway projects. According to these new draft norms, they will be subjected to seven parameters, with quality of work (40%) and timely completion (30%) receiving the highest weightage. The remaining components include maintenance (10%), overall performance and user rating (10%), safety (5%), dispute resolution (3%), and sub-contracting practices (2%), alongside a strong deterrent for poor workmanship through negative marking of up to 30 points for quality lapses.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed concept notes outlining the marking scheme for each parameter \u2014 including punctuality, quality checks and deductions for pavement or structural failures \u2014 have been published with the memorandum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has proposed a new methodology to assess contractors and concessionaires executing national highway projects. According to these new draft norms, they will be subjected to seven parameters, with quality of work (40%) and timely completion (30%) receiving the highest weightage. The remaining components include maintenance (10%), overall performance and user rating (10%), safety (5%), dispute resolution (3%), and sub-contracting practices (2%), alongside a strong deterrent for poor workmanship through negative marking of up to 30 points for quality lapses. Detailed concept notes outlining the marking scheme for each parameter \u2014 [&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":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654786","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\/654786","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=654786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}