{"id":659097,"date":"2026-03-07T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659097"},"modified":"2026-03-07T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:36:58","slug":"nhai-promises-uninterrupted-fuel-bitumen-supply-amid-rising-cost-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhai-promises-uninterrupted-fuel-bitumen-supply-amid-rising-cost-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI promises uninterrupted fuel, bitumen supply amid rising cost concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Friday assured highways builders that adequate supplies of fuel, bitumen and other essential inputs would be maintained amid concerns over a likely fall in availability of bitumen and increase in fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>Highway builders, in a meeting with NHAI chairman Santosh Kumar Yadav, flagged that the prolonged conflict in West Asia is likely to impact project cost and even toll collection on stretches that get a high share of port-bound traffic. They also urged the highways authority to declare the prevailing situation as a force majeure event for highway projects to help them protect against revenue shortfall and extension of concession periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Friday assured highways builders that adequate supplies of fuel, bitumen and other essential inputs would be maintained amid concerns over a likely fall in availability of bitumen and increase in fuel prices. Highway builders, in a meeting with NHAI chairman Santosh Kumar Yadav, flagged that the prolonged conflict in West Asia is likely to impact project cost and even toll collection on stretches that get a high share of port-bound traffic. They also urged the highways authority to declare the prevailing situation as a force majeure event for highway projects to [&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-659097","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\/659097","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=659097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}