The National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation limited (NHIDCl), incorporated last year by the Centre for fast tracking the construction of highways and other infrastructure in North-Eastern region, signed two more agreements for roads projects in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday.
The NHIDCl signed two contracts for the execution of 25-km long road project for two-laning of Bordumsa — Nanchik (Buridihing-Jairampur) segment of NH-52-B (new NH-215) at an estimated cost of Rs184.75 crore and 32-km long road
project for two-laning of stretch from Akajan-likabali-Bame segment of state Road at an estimated cost of Rs272 crore.
“The projects worth around Rs460 crores have been given out under the Equipment, Procurement Construction mode, where the Government bears the cost of construction. These projects will be completed in 36 months,” said an official from MoRTH. “We awarded 18 projects worth Rs6446 crore across Tripura, Assam Meghalaya and Arunachal totaling a length of 600 kilometres in 2014-15 and plan to award 27 projects worth Rs14, 599 crore in Assam, Arunachal, Meghlaya, Sikkim and Nagaland in 2015-16,” said the official.
The NHIDCl, which is a fully-owned company of the
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways plans to treble its construction activity in the North-Eastern States and Border States by 2016-17. The company has proposed to award 54 projects worth Rs48,000 crore. NHIDCl was incorporated in July 2014 with the aim to fast-track highway projects that have been pending with the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) for several years.