A Mhow-based company Prakash Asphalting and Toll Highways (PATH) India limited received the 2nd prize at the Indian Road Congress held at Indore. More than 140 national and international companies involved in construction of highways participated in this conference.
lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan inaugurated this 76 Indian Road Congress, the function was presided over by the union surface and transport minister Nitin Gadkari while chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was the special guest.
Discussions were held by experts on important issues like construction, maintenance, preservation of roads and bridges and road safety etc. Gadkari praised the roads of Sweden and told that not even a single accident is reported on highways and roads of Sweden in a year.
The engineers of IIT, CPWD, MPPWD and different states PWD, participated in this function and put forth their views on highways construction and safety of people.
Chairman of IRC 76 Anil Chansoria who is chief engineer of MPRDC and Akhilesh Agrawal engineer in chief MP presented this award to path for their staff and overall presentation in the technical exhibition of 76 Indian Road Congress.
PATH works on diversified array of products, leading highway construction and tolling contractor. The company has constructed more than 2700 kilometers of national highways and is maintaining more than 3900 kilometers of highways at present.
The director of PATH Puneet Agrawal told The Pioneer that besides constructing highways the company is also involved in corporate social responsibilities activities like providing education, plantation, blood donation camp, health checkup camp, support at time of disasters etc. preserving values of the ancient structures on the project highways.