NHIDCL to hold meet on road making in high rainfall areas

National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) is organising a meet tomorrow on technologies for road construction in high rainfall areas.
The conference aims at advocating the use of appropriate soil, slope stabilisation and other technologies to enhance the life cycle benefits of road pavements in high rainfall conditions, Road Transport & Highways Ministry said in a statement.
The conference will have three technical sessions chaired by experts in the field, and the deliberations aim to focus on introduction of new technologies which would also reduce the carbon footprint during infrastructure construction, it added.
NHIDCL, incorporated in July 2014, is a fully owned company of Road Transport and Highways Ministry.

The company envisages to promote, survey, establish, design, build, operate, maintain and upgrade National Highways and other infrastructure including interconnecting roads particularly in the North Eastern region and strategic areas of the country sharing international boundaries.
An approximate aggregate length of 10,000 kms has been identified to begin with for development through this company.
In the first phase, the ministry has entrusted 60 works to the company for constructing 3,586 km at a total cost of Rs 34,300 crore.