National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) awarded a Consultancy work for Technical assistance to strengthen Asset Management capacity of NHAI and the Ministry in September, 2014 for a contract price of Rs. 16,30,68,383/. The target for completion of the work is October, 2017. The scope of the work, inter-alia, include development of an upgraded Road Asset Management System (RAMS) and Pilot Survey Data collection through a survey vehicle for 3,000 km length of NHs. The database for 3,000 km of NHs has been developed and hosted on NHAI server.
Further, the Ministry launched Indian Bridge Management System (IBMS) on 04th October, 2016 for carrying out inventory and condition assessment of all the existing bridges on NHs. Till date, inventory for more than 1,35,000 bridges has been completed.
It was inter-alia mentioned in the Twelfth Five Year Plan Document that the Twelfth Plan period would be used to setting appropriate institutional structures that create a demand for scientific work in safety issues; have proper legislation and regulation; monitoring and measurement by setting up national databases of relevant information to monitor and assess various aspects of safety policies, technologies and knowledge needs.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Shri Pon. Radhakrishnan in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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