New Delhi: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) will be organising the "National Highways Excellence Awards" (NHEA) 2021 on June 28, 2022, as per the statement issued by the ministry.
This year, the Ministry is hosting an award ceremony in the presence of Union Minister, Nitin Gadkari, to recognise firms and stakeholders for the best performing road assets and toll plazas around the country. Bridge Construction and Tunnel Construction were included as new categories for the fourth award cycle.
In 2018, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) launched the "National Highways Excellence Awards" (NHEA) to reward stakeholders in the highway building and maintenance process and to foster a spirit of healthy competition among them.
According to the statement, the goal is to recognise and reward corporations for the best-performing road assets and toll plazas in the country. Recognizing organisations who are operating extremely well and providing the highest quality services during the construction, operations and maintenance, innovation, greenery, tolling, and road safety stages of highway development.
The award's goal is to build world-class road infrastructure, motorways, toll plazas, expressways, bridges, and tunnels every day using new and creative building procedures that place a significant emphasis on environmental sustainability and cleanliness.
"A total of 157 nominations were received in 2020 across all categories, and one additional special award category, Bridge & Tunnel, was added to the pool of categories from 2019. Union Ministers Shri Rajnath Singh and Shri Nitin Gadkari felicitated the final winners at an award ceremony, held at Vigyan Bhavan, on 18 January 2021," reads the official statement.