A TEAM OF THE EXPERT COMMITTEE WILL VISIT STRECH OF THE SOLAN HIGHWAY AND SUGGEST FURTHER RESTORATION TO CONTRACTOR UNDER (DLP) .

The Ministry of road and surface transport has stepped in to ensure the quality compliance in the NH construction projects amid concerns of the Quality of works.The ministry has set up two panels experts to audit the High way strech that collapsed in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh and an ongoing project of the highway in Gujrat.For which a team of experts will visit the collapsed highway in HP where the road project was recently completed during April 2021 and as per the terms and conditions of the work the Project is covered under the defect and liabilities (DLP).So the contractor is responsible to rebuild the strech with its own expenditures.As per the audit report of the work the government is responsible to fix the responsibility of the contractor .In case of the Gujrat Project the ministry has directed the NHAI not to release the major payments to the contractor till an audit team submits its report on the quality of construction and the contractor takes corrective measures.This is the first time that the ministry has directed NHAI to hold back the release of major payments. The official said that the team was set up after Complaints were received from the area and state of HP and Gujrat about its poor quality of the work done by the contractors.In an office memorandum the ministry of road and surface transport has stated that payments only for carrying out maintenance and safety of the vehicular traffic movement of the traffic can be released during the process of the audit and the instructions have been issued to stop the major payments to ensure that the contractor completes the work as per the suggestion made by the experts committee .