New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi has asked the Ministry of Road Transport to prepare “clear criteria and standards” for subcontinent by main highway builders to ensure high quality of high quality work during project execution. The ministry has also been instructed thatThese instructions between many others came amid examples of damaged new -made highways due to poor quality work – mainly by bidder, the government was quoted by the government for supervision by the government consulting firms visited by the government due to unusually low prices. Last December, PM reviewed the performance of the ministry and mentioned in these directions in the minutes of the meeting released last month, TOI has learned.While the Ministry has amended the terms of the contract to discourage unusually low dialects, it is finalizing stringent norms for the rating of supervision engineers. They will be rolled out in a few weeks. The rating will make impossible for those who are poorly scored to work.Meanwhile, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), India, has stopped more than a dozen construction companies and 17 consultancy firms from bidding for projects and has also imposed a fine of about Rs 24 crore in the last two years. In a series of disciplinary action, 26 NHAI officials, including several general manager and deputy general manager, were suspended for negligence and insult to duty. Another 57 officers, who were on deputation, were returned to their original cadre prematurely as part of the clean-up drive.In a strong message for highway builders, NHAI also warned contractors that they will not only face punishment, but also have to bear the cost of new construction for failures.
