Road ministry issues SOP for digitising sanction of projects across India
ministry of road transport and highways has issued detailed standard operating procedures for recording and digitising the sanction process for all road projects with effect from April 1, 2024.
“The move is aimed at ensuring paperless, informative, transparent and accountable sanction process and has to be mandatorily followed for works being executed through the National Highways Authority of India,” it said in a notification.
As per the notification, besides NHAI other stakeholders involved in construction of roads and highways will also be mandated to sanction projects based on the SOPs. These include the state government, the Border Road Organisation, the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation and all project implementation units (PIUs) under the road ministry.
The ministry plans to also onboard the concerned chief engineers of national highways of the state governments on the e-office portal of the ministry to follow the proposed SOPs. Concerned project zone will ensure CE(NH) of the State Govt is onboarded on e-office.
The ministry has entrusted all its project zone section of all road projects at its headquarter to create an e-file for all national highways works requiring sanction of MoRTH.
“The project zone section at headquarter shall also maintain the electronic register containing file number, name of work, sanctioned cost, computer number, etc. for authentic records,” it said.
Following this, the concerned chief engineer of the state governments or PIUs shall submit the
