{"id":29970,"date":"2026-07-03T01:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/delhi-mumbai-e-way-contractor-sacked-for-poor-quality-work-nhai-on-viral-video-of-damaged-sections-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:34:43","slug":"delhi-mumbai-e-way-contractor-sacked-for-poor-quality-work-nhai-on-viral-video-of-damaged-sections-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/delhi-mumbai-e-way-contractor-sacked-for-poor-quality-work-nhai-on-viral-video-of-damaged-sections-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi-Mumbai E-way contractor sacked for poor quality work: NHAI on viral video of damaged sections | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132146754,imgsize-627001,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Delhi-Mumbai E-way contractor sacked for poor quality work: NHAI on viral video of damaged sections\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Another video purportedly showing a damaged stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan\u2019s Sawai Madhopur has gone viral, intensifying criticism of NHAI following the recent cave-in on the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway.<!-- --> Officials said the highways authority had terminated the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway contractor\u2019s agreement in April after the builder repeatedly failed to fulfil the contractual obligations, despite multiple directions, notices and follow-up actions.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>\u201cIn view of the contractor\u2019s persistently poor performance, its residual works were suspended on April 21, 2026, and the remaining construction works were entrusted to another highway builder,\u201d said an official.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>In addition, the rectification and maintenance works are being carried out by the new contractor at the risk and cost of the terminated highway builder. \u201cThis has been done to ensure expeditious and effective restoration of the affected section,\u201d he added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Officials said that after the opening of one carriageway of four lanes (Mumbai-Delhi) in Feb this year, quality issues such as pavement distress, including rutting, was found on two sections \u2014 4 km and 3 km \u2014 of the stretch.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>\u201cMicro-milling work is currently being carried out on the affected road stretches to level the road surface, improve ride quality, and ensure safe and uninterrupted traffic. Construction work and installation of crash barriers on the parallel carriageway is in progress, so that traffic can soon be shifted from the carriageway which is under repair,\u201d an official said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>After traffic diversion, permanent reconstruction and rehabilitation of the affected stretches will be carried out as per the approved technical methodology. A committee comprising independent technical experts has inspected the affected sections. It has collected samples and these will be tested to find the exact cause of failure and the technical methodology for permanent rectification.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/delhi-mumbai-e-way-contractor-sacked-for-poor-quality-work-nhai-on-viral-video-of-damaged-sections\/articleshow\/132146635.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Another video purportedly showing a damaged stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan\u2019s Sawai Madhopur has gone viral, intensifying criticism of NHAI following the recent cave-in on the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway. Officials said the highways authority had terminated the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway contractor\u2019s agreement in April after the builder repeatedly failed to fulfil the contractual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}