The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) was constituted by the Government of India through a National Highways Authority of India Act, 1988. Authorized to implement the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), it started functioning from February, 1995. Based at
New Delhi, the main objectives are to build and maintain new and existing National Highways, to provide better connectivity through roads to the ports, implement road safety measures and environmental management and to introduce Information Technology in construction, maintenance and all operations of NHAI. The major projects undertaken by the authority are 'Golden Quadrilateral' (5,846 km) connecting
Delhi-
Kolkata-
Chennai-
Mumbai, and 'North-South-East-West Corridor' (7,300 km) connecting Kashmir to
Kanyakumari and
Silchar to
Porbandar. The office of NHAI is located at
Dwarka in
South West Delhi District.
