GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT & HIGHWAYS. Parivahan Bhavan 1, Sansad Marg New Delhi-110001 No. NH-15017/36/2016-P&M(SPZ) Date: July 12, 2016 To 1. The Engineer-in-Chief and Chief Engineers of PWDs of States/UTs dealing with National Highways, other Centrally Sponsored Schemes, - The Chairman, NHAI, G-5&6, Sector-10, Dwarka, New Delhi-110075 . Director General (BR), Seema Sadak Bhawan, Ring Road, New Delhi- 110010 4. Managing Director, NHIDCL, 3" Floor, PTI Building, 4, Parliament Street, New Delhi-110001 wp Subject:- Standardization of reporting responsibility of Independent Engineers (LEs.) / Authority Engineers (A.Es.) for NH Projects. Monitoring and supervision of construction, operation and maintenance of PPP and EPC Projects is undertaken through Independent Engineers and Authority Engineers respectively. The Independent Engineer / Authority (IE / AB) plays a pivotal role in supervising, tracking, and reporting projects progress, thereby highlighting important issues and areas of concern that need to be addressed. The IE / AE is an important link between the Authority and the Concessionaire / Contractor, and is contractually obligated to submit a Monthly Progress Report detailing various aspects of the projects progress. 2. With different IE / AE preparing reports for different projects, the sections included and the level of details in the report vary considerably, Hence, it becomes imperative that reports across various projects are standardized to ensure consistency and comparability. Contd. on page 2pg 2 23 3. It has been decided that the Monthly Progress Report to be submitted by Independent Engineers / Authority Engineers shall invariably contain an Executive Summary of the report. A sample format of the Executive Summary to be included in the Monthly Report (separate for Independent Engineer and Authority Engineer) has been prepared by the Ministry and is uploaded on Ministry's Website (www.morth.nic.in). It may be ensured that the Monthly Progress Report to be submitted by Independent Engineers for all PPP Projects and Monthly Progress Report to be submitted by Authority Engineers for EPC Projects costing more than 100 crores should include the Executive Summary as per format starting from the month of August, 2016. Yours aay, Ae bdo (DS. Pathania) Under Secretary to the Government of India Copy to: - PPS to Secretary (RT&H) ~ for kind information, All the Technical Officers of MoRTH All ROs and ELOs of MoRTH Tech, Circular File of SPZ Section NIC with a request to upload this circular along with standard format for Executive Summary Report to be submitted by IE/AE. vee