NHAI enters Guinness World Record

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• Recently, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) team accomplished the Guinness World Record of successfully completing the construction of 75 km continuous bituminous concrete in a single lane on NH 53 between Amravati and Akola( part of NH 53)  districts in Maharashtra.
  • The previous Guinness World Record for the longest continuously laid bituminous was for building 25.275 kilometres of road that was achieved in Doha, Qatar in February 2019 .

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) 

• It was constituted by an Act of Parliament in 1988 under the administrative control of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
• It has been set up as a Central Authority to develop, maintain and manage the National Highways entrusted to it by the Government of India.
  • The authority, however, became operational in February, 1995.
•  The Authority consists of a full time Chairman, and not more than five full time Members and four part time Members who are appointed by the Central Government. 
• The part time Members are the Secretary (RT&H), Secretary (Expenditure), Secretary (Planning) and DG (RD) & SS.
• NHAI has technical, Finance, Administrative and Vigilance Wings at its Headquarters.

Source:TH