To enhance quality and supervision mechanism of the National Highway projects, NHAI has restricted the maximum number of 10 projects per ‘Engineer’ for 

The consultancy firms for supervision of construction or maintenance of National Highway projects.  It was observed that the Consultancy Firms working as Independent Engineer, Authority Engineer 

Or Supervision Consultant are assigning supervision obligations of many projects to a designated Engineer.

The compliance of specifications and contract provisions is primarily controlled and supervised by the Consultant’s team through the designated ‘Engineer’ assigned to a particular project. 

Due to more number of projects in hand, the designated ‘Engineer’ may not be able to fulfil contractual obligations, defeating the purpose of qualitative and quantitative monitoring of the projects.

Detailed clauses have also been included in the guidelines for consultancy firms implementing and maintaining National Highway projects on Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) mode. 

The clauses include provisions for the appointment of Independent Engineers/Authority Engineers and Delegation of responsibilities.