The Ministry of road, transport and highways has approved 11 National highways projects worth Rs. 6,284 crore.

• The total length of the road is 453 km and will be executed on EPC(Engineering, Procurement Construction), BOT (Toll) and Hybrid annuity model.
• The project was approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) meeting which was held under the chairmanship of Secretary Road, Transport and Highways, Sanjay Mitra.
• Out of the total 11 projects, one will be implemented on BOT(Toll) and Hybrid annuity each and the remaining nine projects will be on EPC mode.

Did You Know?

• The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is an autonomous agency of the Government of India, responsible for management of a network of over 70,000 km of National Highways in India. 
• It is a nodal agency of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. NHAI has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Space Research Organisation for satellite mapping of highways.
• Dr. Yogendra Narain was the first Chairman of NHAI.
• The NHAI is also responsible of the toll collection on several highways.