{"id":58226,"date":"2025-08-05T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=58226"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:02:28","slug":"national-highways-infrastructure-development-corporation-limited-nhidcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-highways-infrastructure-development-corporation-limited-nhidcl\/","title":{"rendered":"National Highways &#038; Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>National Highways &amp; Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The traffic from Sikkim and Kalimpong to Siliguri and vice versa on NH10 remained suspended because of repairs by the National Highways &amp; Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited on a 30 km-long stretch following a landslide and cave-ins.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About National Highways &amp; Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>Central Public Sector Undertaking (CPSU)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the <\/span><b>Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company was <\/span><b>incorporated<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the 18th of July, <\/span><b>2014, under the Companies Act, 2013.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>wholly owned Government entity.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>dedicated exclusively <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the task of <\/span><b>constructing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/upgrading\/widening <\/span><b>National Highways<\/b> <b>in parts of the country which shares international boundaries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><b>neighbouring countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in order to promote regional connectivity on a substantial basis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHIDCL\u2019s <\/span><b>domain extends <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">across the <\/span><b>Union Territories of Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Ladakh,\u00a0 and Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the state of <\/span><b>Uttarakhand<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; and the <\/span><b>entire Northeastern Region <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(NER).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>ambit <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">includes <\/span><b>tunnels, logistics hubs, interstate and international road linkages, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and advanced <\/span><b>mobility facilities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; all serving as the arteries of India\u2019s economic and geopolitical aspirations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">As the<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> executing arm of<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">the Government<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of India\u2019s vision to realize the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">\u201cAct East Policy,\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHIDCL plays a pivotal role as the nodal agency in the Northeastern region.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/west-bengal\/nh10-shut-after-cave-ins-travel-to-sikkim-and-kalimpong-hits-roadblock-ahead-of-season-prnt\/cid\/2116450#goog_rewarded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TELEG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Highways &#038; Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited is a Central Public Sector Undertaking (CPSU) under the Ministry of Road Transport &#038; Highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":58234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2028,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-58226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-national-highways-infrastructure-development-corporation-limited","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}