The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to abandon its plan to carve out a dedicated subsidiary for implementing expressways projects.
It has instead gone ahead with entrusting every board member with the job of implementing projects in about four to five states.
The NHAI has five members.
These projects include ordinary highways as well as expressways in states on contiguous basis. For instance, one official would overlook projects in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala and likewise.
“Highway or expressway is just a nomenclature and we feel that a separate wing would lead to difficulty in inter-departmental coordination. The

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