Government today approved a model document for construction of highways in the country. An official statement said that the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure approved the Model Engineering, Procurement and Construction Agreement Document for construction of 2-lane National
Highways .

The document has been structured in a manner that time overrun and cost overrun in implementation of National Highways works shall be minimised to a great extent and there will be optimisation of design and quality construction.

All the National Highways works which are not done on PPP (public-private partnership) mode would be undertaken
primarily through the EPC mode, the statement said.

The EGoM (Empowered Group of Ministers) in February, this year, mandated that EPC document after finalisation through inter-Ministerial consultations could be placed before the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure for consideration.