Full Form of NHAI

NHAI is the short form of the National Highway Authority of India. The NHAI is an agency that is autonomous and run by the government of India. It was established back in 1995 and carried out the management of around 50000 km of the national highway. The total network of national roads is 1,32,499 km in India. This means that NHAI is responsible for managing about half the highway network. Moreover the chairperson of NHAI is a female, which is a very revolutionary thing in itself. The name of the chairperson is Alka Upadhyaya. NHAI is also considered the first digital law-making institution in India. NHAI was established under the National Highway Authority of India act created in 1998. Under the act, NHAI must maintain and look after the management of the national highways of India. The government of India looks after it. It was on 10th February 1995 that NHAI was made an independent institution that could work by itself. NHAI is also a Guinness world record holder as a highway of 75 km between Amravati and Okala in the state of Maharashtra was built by them in just five days which is very difficult.

Projects by NHAI

As of now, NHAI has been a part of a lot of revolutionary product projects in India. It has been solely responsible for the development of the highway infrastructure of India. The implementation of different schemes was under a variety of phases. Here are some of the projects that NHAI has worked on-

1. In phase 1, approved in December 2000, around Rs.300 billion was spent to work on connecting major ports to national highways.
2. In phase 2, approved in December 2003, NHAI spent around Rs.343 billion on completing the NCW corridors and an extra 486 km of National Highway.
3. In phase 3A, approved in March 2005, around Rs.222 billion were spent on the upgradation of four lanes of 4035 km of the National Highway.
4. Phase 3B was approved in April 2006 at around Rs.543 billion. There was an expenditure again for the upgradation of four lanes of 8074 km of National Highway.
5. In Phase 5, approved in October 2006, NHAI worked on the upgradation of six lanes for 6500 km of the national highway. Phase 5 took inspiration from DBFO.
6. Phase 6 cost NHAI around Rs.167 billion and focused on developing 1000 km of expressways.
7. Phase 7 was approved in December 2007 and focused on developing ring roads, bypasses, and flyovers in selected areas. The total expenditure was Rs.167 billion.

NHAI has also worked towards the development of transportation in the Northeast region. NHAI started a special project called SARDP-NE for the upgradation of national highways connecting to the capital cities of different states in the northeast region.

Green Highways

Green highways is a project by the Ministry of Road, Transport and highways, which is also an organisation by the government of India. Also, the policy was introduced on 29 September 2015 to develop green beds along national highways. Green highways highlighted the importance of a pollution-free environment and motivated people to grow more and more trees. Additionally, the policy aimed to bring together different people, such as people from the corporate sector, farmers, government agencies, forest departments, and whatnot. The idea behind this decision was to also increase greenery in big cities where the plantation has been decreasing rapidly through the past few years. It would also generate employment opportunities in the plantation sector. Lastly, lakhs of people would get the job because of this new target by the government. All in all, it was very beneficial for everyone in every way. [wp-faq-schema title=" Full Form of NHAI FAQs" accordion=1]