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Nitin Gadkari launches real-time monitoring system for toll plazas

On Monday (March 1), Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari launched the real-time monitoring system for
toll plazas across national highways. Through the live monitoring system, toll plazas will be able to measure the length of the
traffic queue and waiting time on a real-time basis and, accordingly, come up with responses to reduce bottlenecks and improve
efficiency of mandatory FASTag usage.

Apart from measuring the „Daily Congestion Index‟ for each plaza, the live monitoring system will also provide details in real-
time of peak-hour traffic at toll plazas. This would allow officials at the respective toll plazas to concentrate more on traffic
management at that specific time daily.

According to a tweet on NHAI‟s official handle, “The live monitoring system for toll plazas will be used to measure queue
length and waiting time on a real-time basis in a bid to provide an immediate response, reduce bottlenecks and improve the
efficiency of mandatory FASTag usage. (sic)”

The live monitoring system for toll plazas will be used to measure queue length and waiting time on a real-time basis in a bid
to provide an immediate response, reduce bottlenecks and improve the efficiency of mandatory FASTag usage.#NHAI
#FASTagZarooriHai #FASTag

— NHAI (@NHAI_Official) March 1, 2021

In December 2019, CNBC-TV18 was the first to provide a glimpse of the same system, stating that the software “uses satellite
data & heat maps to get real-time status (sic).”

#FASTag will become mandatory across India from Dec 1. Currently there are massive queues across toll plazas with up to 30-
35 mins wait time. @awnusharma gets a first-hand demo of a software which uses satellite data & heat maps to get real-time
status @NHAISocialmedia @NPCI_NPCI pic.twitter.com/qUcYJpmgbn

— CNBC-TV18 (@CNBCTV18News) November 14, 2019

The portal will be available in public domain. People can also track the current waiting time and peak traffic hours at toll
plazas.

From February 15 midnight, FASTags have been made mandatory. Any vehicle not fitted with FASTags will be charged
double the toll across the country. Since then, there have been many reports of long queues of vehicles at toll plazas. The live
monitoring system is expected to take care of this hurdle.

On Monday, Gadkari also released the first ever ratings for National Highways. These ratings — compiled and evaluated by
National Highways Authority of India for around 19,000km of completed four and six lane highways and expressways
covering 343 toll plazas — will be used by the authorities to assess the reasons of inefficiency, safety issues, bottleneck at toll
plazas, quality of user services and much more.

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NEWS 18

FASTag: Nitin Gadkari Roots for Digital Toll Tax Collections, Says Savings
Upto Rs 20,000 Cr on Fuel
Last Updated: March 02, 2021,

Mandatory FASTag for highways will help save Rs 20,000 crore per annum on fuel and boost the revenue by at least Rs 10,000
crore, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Monday. Launching a live monitoring system to assess the live condition at toll
plazas pan India and releasing a rating system for highways here, the road transport and highways minister said this was a step
towards achieving perfection in terms of highway use, construction and quality.
“Making FASTags mandatory for highway users for collection of electronic toll has significantly reduced delays at toll plazas.
This will result in a significant saving to the tune of Rs 20,000 crore per annum on fuel cost,” Gadkari said while addressing
the media. The minister said not only this, the electronic toll collection is set to boost royalty by 10,000 crore per annum.
Following the mandatory payment of user fee through FASTag at toll plazas from February 16, 2021, toll collection has seen
consistent growth, and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said its daily toll collection through FASTag has
reached about Rs 104 crore. Gadkari said a new GPS based system for tolling is in the offing, where highways commuters will
be required to pay only for the distance travelled on the basis of entry and exit points.
He, however, clarified that the system will take two years to be introduced. After the introduction of e-tolling in December
2016, the toll plazas covered under it reached 794 on February 28 from 403 toll plazas in March 2018.
Gadkari said through live monitoring of toll plazas, one can not only access the live situation at the particular toll plazas,
including delays but will get a history of the traffic and an almost realistic forecast of the traffic situation. He said after the
launch of the system, the delays have reduced significantly at toll plazas and the government endeavours to reduce delays to
less than a minute in all plazas.
Citing the example of how FASTag has resulted in seamless traffic, he showed how delays at a Jaipur plaza were reduced to 5
minutes from earlier 30 minutes. “There is zero waiting time at 80 per cent of the total toll plazas and toll collection through
electronic tolling has reached 93 per cent from 80 per cent during the last fortnight after the FASTag was made mandatory,”
Gadkari said.
Highlighting the advantages of the live monitoring of toll plazas, the minister said recently in a Mumbai incident, where a
vehicle was found parked outside an industrialist‟s house, it could be detected that vehicle entered from which toll plaza and
who was sitting there and now the police is investigating it. A vehicle with gelatin sticks, an explosive material, was found
parked near industrialist Mukesh Ambani‟s house in south Mumbai recently.
Gadkari said live monitoring of toll plazas will prove to be an important tool in the hands of officials from Income-Tax, GST
and other related departments. He said that based on the live status at toll plazas, the government could further take steps for
correction, including increasing the lanes.
The Centre has provided this platform to eight states, the minister added. He also launched a rating system for highways,
saying the rating has been completed for about 20,000 km of 4/6 lane NH stretches, covering 343 cells (toll plazas) till the end
of October 2020 and is ready for release.
As a policy, this highway rating exercise will be conducted biannually. This regular exercise will help all involved institutions
to improve their services in a more objective manner and also to further improve the existing network for a better travel
experience, Gadkari said. The audit of highways will be done on about 40 parameters, including quality, safety, services,
facilities and other aspects. To improve green plantation cover beside highways, e-tagging of plants will be done, Gadkari
added.
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THE ECONOMIC TIMES

NHAI plans 5,000 km roads per year

| 02 March, 2021, :AgenciesFilling the gaps in the system will help the authority increase yearly construction by at least 1,000
km to begin with, a senior NHAI official said.
The National Highways Authority of India is working to identify bottlenecks in the road construction sector to up its average
yearly road construction bar of 4,000 kilometres. Filling the gaps in the system will help the authority increase yearly
construction by at least 1,000 km to begin with, a senior NHAI official said.

“We are looking at bottlenecks in the system,” the official told ET. “We need to increase our construction to 5,000 km per year.
For that leap, we need to de-clog the system.”

The official said the biggest issue is receiving permission from states to begin construction work. Forest clearances remain a
concern as well.
Vinayak Chatterjee, chairman of infrastructure services firm Feedback Infra, said, “Real bottlenecks in the system are land
acquisition and utility removal, which require streamlining further.”

Permission from other government departments, with respect to, say, removal of transmission lines or railway-related works
also holds back execution work, he said.
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THE TIMES OF INDIA

GMDA seeks another exit on highway link to Sohna

TNN | Mar 2, 2021,
Gurgaon: The Gurgaon Metropolitan Development Authority has written to NHAI to plan exit and entry points to the under-
construction elevated Sohna highway, which will make it convenient for commuters and cut down the travel time between
Gurgaon and Sohna.
According to GMDA officials, while the highway currently has two exits within the city limits, they have proposed a third one.
“We have offered them the land for making an ingress and outlet near Vatika Chowk and we will also bear the costs for the
proposed changes,” said a senior GMDA official. He added that they haven‟t received a response from NHAI as yet.
Talking about the proposal, the official said that it will allow people coming to Gurgaon to take an exit at Vatika Chowk and
then take the southern peripheral road (SPR) if they are headed towards Golf Course Road or new sectors (68-70). “It will help
bring down the traffic on the arterial roads in the city,” the official added.
Meanwhile, the work for the construction of the underpass at Vatika Chowk is now expected to start soon with all the
approvals in place.
“We have approved the proposal for the development of the underpass at the junction. It will be funded by the GMDA but
NHAI will be developing it,” the official said. Even though the underpass was earlier proposed as a part of the redevelopment
of the SPR, as of now, only the underpass has been approved along with another underpass in Islampur which were announced
in 2019.
The redevelopment of SPR is stuck as the project proposal was not approved by the metropolitan authority due to concerns
over high cost. The project includes widening and strengthening of the entire stretch between Ghata chowk and Vatika chowk
with three underpasses and two flyovers at the five junctions on the stretch. SPR is currently in a bad state despite the regular
patch work being done by the GMDA. The officials from the authority said that the road is not strong enough to handle the
kind of heavy vehicle pressure it is subjected to.
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THE TIMES OF INDIA

No relief for NHAI, Madras HC asks it to collect only 50% toll fee
Mar 2, 2021,

CHENNAI: The two toll plazas on the Maduravoyal-Ranipet section of the Chennai-Bengaluru highway will continue to
collect only 50% of the toll, as the Madras high court has refused to reconsider its order reducing the user fee citing pathetic
road condition.

Dismissing review applications moved by the NHAI, a division bench of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice A A Nakkiran
said: “This court has noted with anguish that the NHAI, which is a premier agency for construction and maintenance of all-
weather roads, is not even in a position to maintain the road in question and it is full of potholes, without any signage and even
the median is not also maintained in proper condition, endangering the lives of the road users.”

Though NHAI would submit that patch and repair work of the road has begun in the light of monitoring being done by this
court and that the order which is sought to be reviewed causes great financial hardship to NHAI, it is the considered opinion of
the court is that such submission lacks merits and substance, the bench said. The stretch between Maduravoyal and Walajah is
in a pitiable condition and only due to the monitoring by this court patch work has been done and it is not up to the standard
laid down by the Indian Road Congress, the court added.

“The only explanation offered is since a six-lane work is going on, there is no useful purpose in relaying the four lanes. It is to
be noted at this juncture, even in respect of the six lane work this court in its earlier order noted, there is already a cost and time
over which the road users cannot be put to peril and danger. No factual or legal tenable grounds has been made out to review
the order, therefore the review application is dismissed,” the bench said.

On December 9, 2020, taking a serious view of the pathetic condition of the national highway between Maduravoyal and
Walajapet, the court penalised NHAI and directed it to collect only 50% of the user fee in two toll plazas located in the stretch.
Aggrieved, by the order, NHAI moved the present review application claiming that the authority is suffering losses of over Rs
16 lakh per day in view of the order.

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THE TIMES OF INDIA

Ahmedabad-Vadodara section of NH-48 rated best NH in first ever ranking

carried out by NHAI
Dipak K Dash | TNN | Mar 2, 2021,

NEW DELHI: Ahmedabad-Vadodara section of NH-48 is the best rated national highway in the country followed by the
corridor from Goa/Karnataka border to Kundapur in Karnataka. In the first ever ranking of NH stretches carried out by the
NHAI where toll is being collected, 31 out of 219 such stretches have scored more than 80 marks on a scale of 0 to 100.

The scores of all these stretches with a cumulative length of nearly 19,000 km were released by Union road transport and
highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday. NHAI officials said this was a move to make the key highway construction
authority "accountable" to the users who pay for using the NH stretches. Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019 had asked the
highway ministry to rank NH stretches on quality and safety parameters.

While Delhi-Meerut Expressway ranked at 35, the access controlled Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway is at 103. The 63.5 km NH
stretch from Delhi/ Haryana border to Rohtak has received the second lowest score.

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"We will carry out this mechanism of giving scores to all completed highway stretches in every six month. This will put
pressure on highway builders, concessionaires and also our own officers to take corrective measures," said NHAI chairman SS
Sandhu.

The NHAI has included the completed highway and expressway stretches that are of four or six lanes. and the scoring was
done based on 39 parameters broadly categorised into three main criteria - highway efficiency (45 marks), highway safety (35
marks) and user services (20 marks) evaluated on a total score of 100 marks.

"This entire work has been done by NHAI itself without appointing a consultant. This has been done with the intention to
improve the quality of public services. We will cover all the completed stretches under NHAI in the following phases," said a
source. Officials also admitted that there is a need to involve a third party or road users to give the score for different stretches.
"This is possible through a good app," one of them said.

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THE TIMES OF INDIA

Despite Covid, highway construction breaks all time records: Gadkari

Dipak K Dash | TNN | Updated: Mar 2, 2021,

NEW DELHI: Beating the Covid pandemic, highway construction touched a high of 11,032 km till February creating a new
record, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Monday. The average daily construction of 33 km is nearly a three-fold increase
over the pace of highway building during 2013-14, the last year of UPA-II.

The Indian Railways also claimed that the cumulative freight loading till Sunday exceeded the figures of last year for the same
period (till February 28). It said a total of 1,102.2 million tonnes (MTs) of freight was loaded till Feb-end this financial year as
against 1,102.1 MT till February 28 during the previous year. In 2020, February had 29 days.

While launching an IT platform to monitor the live traffic situation at toll plazas, Gadkari said the achievement in NH
construction was made despite the Covid-induced challenges and non-availability of labourers during the lockdown. He said
the government is still hopeful of achieving the target of 40-km per day in the remaining one month of the financial year.

“Because of mandatory use of FASTag our revenue from toll has gone up and that too despite protesters in Punjab and parts of
Haryana and Rajasthan not allowing us to collect toll and nearly 7% people are still paying cash for the user fee. The toll
collection through FASTag has touched Rs 108 crore,” Gadkari said.

NHAI chairman S S Sandhu said the annual increase in toll revenue is estimated at Rs 10,000 crore while comparing with the
same toll rate and the same number of toll plazas of last year. “If we take an absolute estimate, we will earn Rs 13,000 crore
from toll collection,” he added.

Sources said the transparent system for toll collection through FASTag has plugged all leakages and this actual revenue
realisation will help NHAI when it‟s accelerating to monetise its completed roads. NHAI also said the average waiting time at
toll plazas has reduced drastically to a maximum of two-and-a-half minutes. “Nearly 80% of the toll plazas have no waiting
time. We are monitoring and taking steps to see this happen across all toll plazas,” Sandhu said.

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THE ECONOMIC TIMES

NHAI working to identify bottlenecks to speed up road construction

| 02 March, 2021
The biggest issue is receiving permission from states to begin construction work, while forest clearances remain a concern as
well, a senior government official said.
Agencies“We need to increase our construction to 5,000 km per year. For that leap, we need to de-clog the system,” an official
said.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is working to identify bottlenecks in the road construction sector to up its
average yearly road construction bar of 4,000 kilometres, a senior government official said.
Filling the gaps in the system will help the authority increase yearly construction by at least 1,000 km to begin with, the official
said.
“We are looking at bottlenecks in the system,” a senior official at NHAI told ET.

“We need to increase our construction to 5,000 km per year. For that leap, we need to de-clog the system,” the official added.

The official said that the biggest issue is receiving permission from states to begin construction work, while forest clearances
remain a concern as well.

“Real bottlenecks in the system are land acquisition and utility removal, which require streamlining further,” said Vinayak
Chatterjee, Chairman of Feedback Infra.

Chatterjee said that the permission from other government departments, with respect to say, removal of transmission lines or
railway-related works also holds back execution work.

As per market watchers, the government could also look at a committee which can guarantee clearances in a certain timeframe.
For ongoing contracts, a framework for contract renegotiation would help in smooth execution, said Arindam Guha, partner at
Deloitte India.

“There are certain factors that lead to change in project milestones and timelines when the project comes in the execution stage.

A strong framework for renegotiating contracts due to forces uncontrollable by neither the contactor, nor the implementing
agency, will go a long way in resolving disputes,” Guha added.

The Budget for FY 22 has called for a conciliation framework, and the contract renegotiation guidelines could be enabled
through the same, Guha added.
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SIAM to meet Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on March 2, seek deferment

of CAFE norms
| 02 March, 2021, Auto industry body SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers) will meet with Union transport
minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday, seeking deferment of fuel efficiency norms that kick in from 2022.

The corporate average fuel efficiency norms, the rules in question, set the standard fuel economy target by vehicle weight or
size.

“SIAM is meeting with minister Notin Gadkari on Tuesday, regarding deferment of CAFE norms,” a source told ET. “But the
government is not very keen, given its CoP21 commitments,” the person added.

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The 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) was held in Paris from November 30 to December 12 2015 that saw the participation of 195 nations.

Among India‟s commitments at the meet, is reducing greenhouse gas emission intensity of its GDP by 33-35 per cent below
2005 levels by 2030.

In India, the average corporate CO2 emissions must be 130 gm/ km travelled for 2022, and 113 gm/km travelled thereafter.

Making CAFE norms in India stricter will ensure that automakers are producing vehicles which are fuel-efficient, and reduce
their CO2 emissions at the same time.

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INDIA TODAY

Upcoming Noida international airport to be connected with Delhi-Mumbai

expressway
The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is likely to be completed in the next two-three years.
Abhishek Anand ; March 2, 2021
The upcoming airport at the Jewar area of Greater Noida is likely to be connected with the much-awaited
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. The Expressway is passing just 31 kilometers away from the upcoming airport from
the Ballabhgarh city of Haryana. The Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments have agreed to construct a road
to link the two areas. While seven kilometers of this stretch is in Uttar Pradesh, 24 kilometers of the stretch of
this proposed road is to be constructed in Haryana.

“Both the state governments will identify land and after the acquisition process, it will be handed over to the
national highway authority of India (NHAI) for further construction,” said a senior officer at the Yamuna
Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA).

The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is likely to be completed in the next two-three years. The 1250 kilometer long
highway will connect Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. It will connect India’s
national capital Delhi to the financial capital Mumbai. “As a result of this connecting road, the travel time from
Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi to the upcoming Noida International airport will be reduced by one
and a half hour. This is the most sustainable way to connect both the airports of the national capital region,” the
officer added.
Construction of the Noida international airport has been delayed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic
and the subsequent lockdowns and travel bans. The Zurich Airport has won the tender for the construction of
the airport.

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Ministry of Road Transport & Highways
MoRTH releases Rating mechanism for National Highways

Over 11,000 km NHs constructed during the current financial year at an

average of 35 kms per day

Gadkari wows to increase pace of road construction in the balance

period to achieve rate of 40 kms per day
Posted On: 01 MAR 2021 6:38PM by PIB Delhi

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has released the ratings for 18,668 km of completed 4/6 lane NH stretches
covering 343 toll plazas. This has been done by NHAI under MoRTH, which has taken initiative to improve its accountability
towards road users, who pay user fee for use of developed National Highways. This initiative has been taken as per vision of
improving the quality of public services. The fundamental objective of highway rating is “Minimum time with maximum
safety in stress free environment” from highway users‟ perspective.

Each toll plaza of highway is judged based on three major criteria viz. Efficiency, Safety and and User Services. These criteria
are further divided into a total of 39 parameters which include average speed, road condition, facility for public like VUP/
PUP/ FOB, service road, delay at toll plaza, accidents, incident response time, wayside amenities, general cleanliness, etc.
These criteria were framed after detailed studies held in NHAI & MoRTH before its final approval by MoRTH/ GOI. No such
criteria has been developed across the Globe in the past which evaluates the performance of highway from the users‟
perspective.

The Ministry has also begun real-time monitoring of toll plazas across the country. It is a simple help to improve traffic
congestion problem at toll plazas/ city roads/highways by using central monitoring system along with bundle of analytics and
quick decision-making outputs. This is eventually likely to facilitate saving the Commute Time, Improve Customer
Experience, Save Fuel Wastage Cost and Reduce Carbon Footprint. It uses several technologies like Satellite Imagery, GIS,
Remote Sensing along with a proprietary algorithm to remotely monitor the congestion status of the roads. The frequency
sample of data can be as low as even 1-5min depending upon the requirements.

Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkarui said, with these technologies
on ground, it will be possible to identify the lacunae in road construction andf management. It will be easier to rectify the faults
in a speedier way, he said. With road safety in the priority, this will be helpful in mitigating the faulrts. He said, IIT and
Engineering students will be trained and involved in this exercise. He said, FASTag issues are initial problems, and they are
being solved gradually.

The Minister informed that 11,035 km of NH have been constructed during theis year, which represents a rate of 35 kms per
day. The Minister reiterated his resaolve to achieve the rate of 40 km per day within the balance moinths of this financial year.

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