2,500-km road projects cancelled; fresh bids after cost revision

Projects to build 2,500 km of highways –— a large part of which were awarded in the third year of the UPA-II regime — have been cancelled. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) awarded most these projects in 2011-12. In the subsequent years — 2012-13 and 2013-14 — because of the economic slowdown, firms did not respond to many bids that were floated by the NHAI.

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