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Overview

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) had set a target for widening and up gradation of National Highways (NH) at 20 km per day. It was, however, noticed that NHAI's achievement during 2009-10 to 2012-13 ranged between 3.06 km and 17.81 km per day. There was inconsistency in adopting carrying capacity/tollable traffic as yardstick for determining the Concession Period by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

This resulted in fixing higher concession period and higher burden on road users by way of toll for the extended period. Users have to pay an additional toll of RS 28095.54 crore (NPV RS 3233.71 crore). NHAI incurred RS 856.80 crore on account of change of scope in 23 projects, out of which RS 662.53 crore was on account of deficient Detailed Project Report (DPR)/Feasibility Report (FR).

NHAI could not start toll collection in six completed annuity projects due to delay in achieving of commercial operation date (COD). This resulted in forgoing toll collection of RS 259.47 crore. Further toll of RS 171.37 crore could not be collected due to delay in issue of toll notification (RS 157.65 crore) and failure to commence toll collection after issue of toll notification (RS 13.72 crore) for these projects.

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• Index
• Preface
• Executive Summary
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Planning
• Chapter 3 - Financial Management
• Chapter 4 - Award of Project and the Concession Period
• Chapter 5 - Execution of Projects
• Chapter 6 - Revenue from Toll
• Chapter 7 - Monitoring of Projects
• Chapter 8 - Conclusion
• Annexures
• Glossary