India, June 12 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
To enhance quality and supervision mechanism of the National Highway projects, NHAI has restricted the maximum number of 10 projects per 'Engineer' for the consultancy firms for supervision of construction or maintenance of National Highway projects. It was observed that the Consultancy Firms working as Independent Engineer, Authority Engineer or Supervision Consultant are assigning supervision obligations of many projects to a designated 'Engineer'.
The compliance of specifications and contract provisions is primarily controlled and supervised by the Consultant's team through the designated 'Engineer' assigned to a particular project. Due to more number of proje...