Seventeen states and the union territory of Chandigarh on Tuesday assured support to the centre for timely execution of highways projects in the build, operate and transfer (BOT) mode.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is likely to award Rs.1 lakh crore worth of projects for the construction of about 6,500 km of highways in this fiscal.
I am satisfied that in the absence of grant of interim relief, the prayer made by the petitioner would become infructuous," said Justice Valmiki J. Mehta's order on the case involving a bypass and two-lane bridges awarded in 1997