India needs a new Highway Services Authority

Moving on to technology, the new leap of faith is that toll collections are poised to shift to a GPS-based system

Every organisation has a core purpose — or DNA, as it is popularly referred to. So BHEL’s DNA is to produce power generation equipment, whilst NTPC’s is to generate power. BHEL does not generate power; nor does NTPC make power equipment.
 
In a similar vein, the DNA of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is to construct. The NHAI has rightfully earned laurels in fulfilling its institutional mandate in the two-and-a-half decades it has been in existence. It has a string of record-breaking achievements, including now being within striking distance of 40 kms/day of road construction, having achieved