NHAI becomes first construction sector to go 'fully digital'; all projects under execution will be in access

All project documentation, contractual decisions and approvals will now be done through portal only.

According to the press release, the portal will forecast the delays, likely disputes and will give advance alerts. 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.

Since NHAI has a history of having large number of arbitration cases pending,, these disputes will now be minimized as the Data Lake software has provisions to keep track and and will ensure work is carried out within the deadlines in a transparent manner. This will also enable decision-making to be faster and will eventually diminish chances of litigation in future, said the release.

"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," it added later.

The Data Lake will bring revolutionary changes to NHAI with benefits like no delays, quick decision making, no question of missing records, work from anywhere/anytime. It will enhance transparency, as all officers and stakeholders, connected with the project can see what is going on real time basis which will amount to concurrent performance audit by the seniors.