FUTURE PLANS

Sections of NH-2, NH-5 and NH-8 have now

been prioritized for further widening to six
lanes under
DBFO(Design,Build,Finance,Operate) pattern
and more sections would be six-laned in the
near future. On NH-8 Six lanes work is
completed from Vadodara to Surat and now
the highway is 6-track
 CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS
In August 2003, Jharkhand -based project director Satyendra Dubey ,
in a letter to the Prime Minister, outlined a list of malafide actions in
a segment of this highway in Bihar . Dubey's claims included that
big contractors had inside information from NHAI officials  that the
contractors for this stretch were not executing the project
themselves (as stipulated in the contract) but subcontracting the
work small builders who lacked technical expertise and that no
follow-up was performed after awarding advances. Dubey's name
was leaked by the PMO to the NHAI, and he was transferred
against his wishes to Gaya ,Bihar , where he was murdered on
November 27.
The NHAI eventually admitted that Dubey's charges were
substantiated, and implemented "radical reforms" in selection and
contract procedures.After a lengthy CBI  investigation, Mantu
Kumar and three accomplices were arrested and charged with
murder; however, Mantu escaped from court on September 19,
2005 and remains on the run.
 ACCIDENTS

In February 2006, a 600 meter stretch of the

highway connecting Kolkata  to Chennai
 subsided into the ground, opening up ten
meter gorges near Bally , West Bengal . This
stretch had been completed a year back by a
Malaysian multinational firm, selected after
global tendering