National Highways Authority of India has awarded three highway projects, totally valued at Rs.879 crore, to be developed on BOT basis. The three stretches, all part of Phase III-A of the National Highway Development Programme, lie in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The concession agreements for these projects was signed with three special purpose vehicles promoted by a consortium of Oriental Structures Engineering and Delhi Brass Metal.

The broad details of the three projects are:

Section: Agra-Bharapur Section (NH-11)
States: Uttar Pradesh & Rajasthan
Project: NHDP-IIIA
Length: 45.244 km (km 17.756 to km 63.000)
Execution: BOT model
Concessionaire: Oriental Pathways (Agra) Pvt Ltd
Cost: Rs.195 crore
Completion: 30 months
Concession period: 20 years, including construction time
Grant: Rs.2.87 crore (Negative; payable to NHAI)
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Section: Indore-Khalghat Section (NH-3)
States: Madhya Pradesh
Project: NHDP-IIIA
Length: 77.61 km (km 12.600 to km 84.700)
Execution: BOT model
Concessionaire: Oriental Pathways (Indore) Pvt Ltd
Cost: Rs.472 crore
Completion: 36 months
Concession period: 20 years, including construction time
Grant: Rs.5.80 crore (Negative; payable to NHAI)
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Section: Kondhali-Talegaon Section (NH-6)
States: Maharashtra
Project: NHDP-IIIA
Length: 50 km (km 50 to km 100)
Execution: BOT model
Concessionaire: Oriental Pathways (Nagpur) Pvt Ltd
Cost: Rs.212 crore
Completion: 30 months
Concession period: 20 years, including construction time
Grant: --
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Note: NHDP-Phase IIIA is a Rs.22,000 crore project aiming to four-lane 4,000 km of national highways, which are outside the purview of the first two phases of NHDP, viz. Golden Quadrilateral & the East-West, North-South corridor projects. NHDP-IIIA is in turn part of NHDP-III that involves four-laning of 10,000 km of high-density corridors. NHDP-III, initiated during the NDA regime in 2003-04, was then known as Pradhan Mantri Bharat Jodo Yojana.