NHAI suspends contractor over damaged highway | India News

NEW DELHI: After a video of a damaged portion of an under-construction section of the Amritsar-Jamnagar Economic Corridor in Gujarat went viral, NHAI suspended the project’s contractor, authority engineer and an official. Contractor CDS Infra Projects Ltd has been barred from participating in ongoing and future bids, and a penalty of Rs 2.8 crore has also been imposed, highways authority said. NHAI said action was taken after reports of distressed condition of pavement crust at some locations of the six-lane Sanchore-Santalpur section of the corridor in Gujarat.