Yudhvir Singh Malik, the Special Secretary with NITI Aayog, has been appointed as new Chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
He will replace Raghav Chandra. Senior IAS officer Chandra was Chairman since August 2015
Before joining the NITI Aayog he was
CEO of FSSAI from 2014 Oct to 2015 Sept- which saw the Maggi Noodle Ban bring the food regulatory authority into news.
NHAI is entrusted with the task of implementing National Highways Development Project (NHDP), India’s largest-ever highways project.
It regulates 92,851 km of national highways across the country.
NHAI: Nodal Agency for Highways- NHAI is an autonomous agency of the Government of India,
- It manages a network of over 70,000 km of National Highways in India.
- It is a nodal agency of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
- National Highways Authority of India Act, 1988 led to its creation
- It signed an MoU with ISRO recently for satellite mapping of highways
