Technology application could be key to PPP in rural roads

摘要

The two-day 5th India Roads Conference held at the Taj Mahal Hotel in New Delhi on February 15-16, 2012 was a great success with the triggering of policy as well as questions on seamless and qualitatively superior linkagesThe National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the National Rural Roads Development Agency (NRRDA) and the state road development corporations will be busy next year. A major part—about 20,000 km—of the National Highways Development Programme's (NHDP) Phase IV will be bid out in 2012. On another front, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), targeted at covering rural habitations with motorable roads, will see a large augmentation in budgetary allocation in the 12th Plan.