concept 2:

 

Remarks on the proposal of finance mnistry (pfm):

 

I) At Present NHAI has 15000 and ministry has 45000 kms of road lengh.

The technical staff with the two is as below:(only filled posts)

                              Mihis.     From State PWD         nhai

1] C.E.                          ??           ??                  ??

2] S.E.(>10 yr seniority)        ??           ??                  ??

3] S.E.(<10 yr seniority)        ??           ??                  ??

4] E.E.                          ??           ??                  ?? 

 

II] The work of 45000 Km of roads, now with ministry, can be transferred

to NHAI within 3 years. It need not take 5 years as indicated in pfm.

 

III] The pfm talks about NHAI picking up technical staff from the

ministry "as per suitability". Instead, NHAI will have to absorb all

technical staff barring those who desire to take VRS. Later, as they

retire, NHAI will implement its own recruitment policy. This phase will

come after 12-15 years.

 

IV] Immediately, NHAI needs to formulate its promotion policy, in order

to facilitate transfer of staff in such a way that will not hamper the

efficiency of execution of road projects.

 

V] While transferring the roads to NHAI, ministry has to work out

priority roads. In terms of volume it should be phased out as 20%,

35% and 45%. In terms of importance it will be 40%, 40% and 20%.

In view of this the staff transfer plan will need to be 50%, 30%

and 20% over 3 years.

 

VI] Presently, 2 modes of road work execution exist, NHAI uses the

method of contracting while ministry uses the method of using state

PWD staff as their agents. Both methods have their +ve and -ve aspects

and they can be seen as complimentary methods rather than rival methods.

This flexibility can be used with advantage. Hence, NHAI will have to

decide about its method of executing the work.