New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- With an objective to enhance the capabilities and skilling of workers engaged in the National Highway construction, NHAI will initiate a structured skill development and capacity building program that will be in line with the growing scale, complexity and quality requirements of the expanding National Highway network in the country.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the initiative aims to upgrade construction workers' skills to meet emerging quality-control standards in ongoing projects and to strengthen their ability to maintain developed National Highway assets.

In the first-of-its-kind exercise, NHAI has undertaken a detailed mapping of the origins of construction labour e...