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NHAI, under the National Highways Development Project, has divided road development totalling about 55,000 km into seven phases of which phase-I has been substantially completed. The projects under all these phases are expected to be completed by December 2016. Two mega road projects awarded over the past 12 months were:

• In February this year, under NHDP III-A, NHAI awarded a 78-km stretch of Krishnanagar- Berhampore Road on NH-34 to SEW Infrastructure Ltd. The 702-crore project will be developed on BOT-Annuity basis. Likewise, the Barasat-Krishnanagar stretch of NH-34, valued at 867 crore, was awarded to Madhucon Projects Ltd.  
• The Tirupati-Tiruthani- Chennai section of NH-205 was awarded to the Indian- Russian JV Transstroy-OJSC consortium in April 2010 at a cost of 571 crore. A month later, NHAI awarded the Bhubaneswar-Puri stretch of NH-203 to KSS-Valecha (Bhubaneswar Expressway Pvt. Ltd) for 500 crore and the Sambalpur-Baragarh- Chhattisgarh/Orissa border project, estimated to cost 909 crore, to Ashoka Buildcon Ltd (Ashoka Sambalpur Baragarh Expressway Pvt. Ltd).

While NHAI is responsible for the development of national highways, the state public works departments and municipal corporations look into the development of state highways and village roads. The PWDs are actively inviting tenders for construction of roads as well as widening, strengthening and construction of bridges from private entities.

The states which are active in BOT projects are Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Kerala and Karnataka.

In the south, the Tamil Nadu government has formed a separate highways department, as part of the PWD, to develop roads and bridges in the state. Tamil Nadu is executing several flyover and road improvement projects under the central aided and rehabilitation schemes as well as aid from World Bank and ADB.

In Kerala, the government has formed Roads and Bridges Development Corporation of Kerala Ltd under the PWD to execute BOT projects. It is currently in the process of tendering projects in two phases.

Even as the central and state governments strive to award road projects to private players, many projects are getting delayed due to issues like land acquisition and financial closure.

Major projects awarded between April 2010 and March 2011
Granter of Concession	Concessionaire	Month of Award	Project	Cost (`crore)
NHAI	IVRCL Infrastructures& Projects Ltd	June 2010	4/6 laning project on NH-17 from Maharashtra-Goa border to Panaji (Goa)-Karnataka border (km 475.040 to 611.000)	3,100
NHAI	IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd	May 2010	Four laning of Chenani-Nashri section from km 89.00 to 130.00 (new alignment) of NH-1A in J&K	2,519
NHAI	Era Infra Engineering Ltd, in association with OJSC-Sibmost of Russia	May 2010	Four laning the Bareilly-Sitapur section from km 262.000 to 413.200 of NH-24 in Uttar Pradesh under NHDP-Phase III	1,723
NHAI	Sadbhav Engineering Ltd	October 2010	Widening to two lanes Mulatai- Chhindwara-Seoni and Narsinghpur- Amarwara-Saoner sections of national highways in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra	1,411
NHAI	IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd	May 2010	six laning of Tumkar- Chitradurga section from km 75.00 to 189.00 of NH-4 in Karnataka under NHDP-Phase V	1,200
NHAI	Ramky Infrastructure Ltd, Hyderabad, and Jiangsu Provincial Transportation Engineering Group Company Ltd, China	November 2010	Rehabilitation, strengthening and four laning of Srinagar-Banihal section of NH-1A from km 187.00 to 189.350 (Banihal Bypass) and km 220.700 to 286.110 in J&K	1,100
NHAI	Consortium of IL&FS Transportation Networks- Ramky Infrastructure Ltd	October 2010	Four laning of over 61-km stretch of Jorabat-Shillong (Barapani) section of NH-40 between Assam and Meghalaya under SARDP- NE	824
NHAI	Punj Lloyd Infrastructure Ltd	March 2011	Upgradation of NH-31 from Khagaria to Purnea in Bihar under NHDP-III	735
NHAI	Gayatri Projects Ltd	April 2010	Six laning Indore-Dewas in Madhya Pradesh	602
R&B, Andhra Pradesh Road Development Corporation	Gayatri Projects Ltd, Hyderabad	May 2010	Four laning of Hyderabad- Ramagundam Road on SH-1	2,200
Government of Maharashtra	IVRCL Assets and Holdings Ltd	September 2010	Improvement of Sion-Panvel special state highway from BARC junction (ch 140/690) to Kalamboli junction (ch 115/800)	1,500
State Road Transport and Highway Department, Nagaland	Gayatri Projects Ltd	December 2010	Two-lane roads up to 329 km in Nagaland	1,131
Government of Maharashtra	IVRCL Infrastructures& Projects Ltd	September 2010	Four laning and improving Karanji-Wani-Ghuggus-Chandrapur road (SH 6&7) in Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts of Maharashtra	750
Department of Transport, Abu Dhabi	Larsen & Toubro Ltd	December 2010	Construction of 'Sheikh Khalifa Interchange'	716
Government of Maharashtra	Supreme Infrastructure India Ltd	December 2010	Four laning of roads at Ahmednagar-Karmala-Tembhurni in Maharashtra	560

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