Audit underway to weed out officials with below-par performance: Gadkari

Gadkari said that monitoring and review at the official level needs greater attention and focus.

Tightening the noose on errant officers, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday said that an audit is underway to weed out officials with below-par performance.

Gadkari said the performance of the officials will be evaluated on the basis of targets set for them and their delivery, besides other parameters.

“The performance audit has been dovetailed with the annual appraisal of the officials in the road ministry and the NHAI (National Highways Authority of India),” Road Secretary Sanjeev Ranjan told reporters after the government’s two-day long review of NHAI projects here.

It is learnt that the exercise is being conducted