rope) Government of India — Ministry of Road Transport & Highways cet mac? fra (Highways Section) Transport Bhawan, 1, Parliament Street, New Delhi-110001 Dated:26'August, 2023 In order to bring about a significant improvement in the quality of work Being implemented across all the Executing Agencies of MoRTH, a Quality Cell (QC) is hereby constituted which wil, inter alia, carry out the following tasks: i. Quality Cell will propose SOPs/Advisories/changes in RFP or MCA, based on experience in Quality Audits to MoRTH Policy Coordination Committee. li, Undertake Quality Audit of the projects proposed by the Nodal Officers of three agencies viz. MoRTH, NHAI and NHIDCL ii, The QC may be empanelied Advisors/Quality Monitors supported by the firmsfinstitutions having quality control labs for undertaking the quality audits. iv. After the quality audits, report will be sent to the Nodal Officers for providing comments within 15 days. QC will undertake closure audit, if required. v. While undertaking the quality audit one officer from Executing Agency as nominated by Nodal Officer shall invariably be associated vi. While taking samples for quality testing, the respective contractor and consultant's representative shall invariably authenticate this along with officer of implementing agencies not below the rank of Executive Engineer. 2. ‘The Quality Cell will comprise of Shri K. Venkata Ramana, Member (PPP), NHAI, Shri T.K. Baidya, Director (Technical), NHIDCL and Shri Sudip Chaudhury, ADG, MoRTH. The Quality Gell Members will also act as Nodal Officer of their respective agencies and they will take all requisite approvals from their Competent Authorities, wherever required, like expenditure of quality audit, ete. 3. This issues with the approval of the competent authority. a errs (Sanjay Kumar) Under Secretary to the Government of India Telephone No. 23714001 To a7All the members of the Quality Cell Copy for information to: 1. Secretary (RT&H) 2, DG(RD) &SS ~8 Chairman, NHAI 4, MD, NHIDCL