The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), under the Ministry of Road Transport Highways (MoRTH) has gone fully digital, with the launch of cloud-based and Artificial Intelligence powered Big Data Analytics platform, Data Lake and Project Management Software.
The entire project management work flow of NHAI is transformed from manual to online portal based, wherein the complete project execution operations including workflow with time lines and alert mechanism have been configured.
All project documentation, contractual decisions and approvals are now being done through portal only.
With advance analytics, the Data Lake Software will forecast delays, likely disputes and give advance alerts.
Apart from expediting the decision-making, it will also facilitate in taking correct and timely decisions as the system is likely to predict financial impacts of different alternatives based on the historical data.
The Data Lake Software has provisions to keep track and check on all the constraints and will ensure work is carried out within the deadlines in a transparent manner. As all processes are going to be portal-based, decision-making is going to be faster and will eventually diminish chances of litigation in future.
The complete project documents and correspondences will be stored in digital format in the cloud-based ‘Data Lake’ linked with GIS tagging and Unique Project ID, so that the project data can be easily retrieved as and when required from any location.
NHAI’s e-Office module is also integrated in the system so that all correspondences can flow digitally in a secured manner from field units to HQ seamlessly.