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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has started the new financial year on a positive note by awarding projects for expansion of around 1,000-km of national highways. This is one-third of what the authority had managed in the whole of 2009-10.If NHAI, which has the mandate to award national highway expansion projects, continue to perform the given task at the current pace, it may well be in a position to meet the target for the year. It has to award more than 10,000-km of national highways this year at least.Last year, it failed to meet the goals as it could bid out only 38 projects for expansion of 3,351-km highways. The goal was to award more than 120 projects for developing 12,652 km of highways during that year. However, the performance was best since 2005-06. The authority had awarded more than 3,000-km of national highways only in 2005-06, when it awarded 116 projects."There are more than 40 projects that are at various stages of approval. Some are with Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee and some with the Cabinet. We are confident of performing better than last year," a senior NHAI official told FE. Road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath had last week said that NHAI will award no less than 50 projects this year.Total of 13 projects were awarded in a meeting of NHAI board on April 26, 2010. Private developers that have won these contracts include Larson & Toubro, Madhucon Projects, ERA Infrastructure and some consortia formed by SREI.After assuming office in 2009, Nath had set a target of awarding 12,652-km highways expansion projects during 2009-10 and 11,854 km in 2010-11 in order to attain Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's vision of construction of 20 km roads of national highways a day. But the targets were brought down later. This year, the authority has to award 7,305-km that pertain to 2010-11 and an additional 3,000 km that have been carried forward from 2009-10.
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