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NHAI enters Guinness World Record

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In News 

  • Recently, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) team accomplished the Guinness World Record of successfully completing the construction of 75 km continuous bituminous concrete in a single lane on NH 53 between Amravati and Akola( part of NH 53)  districts in Maharashtra.
    • The previous Guinness World Record for the longest continuously laid bituminous was for building 25.275 kilometres of road that was achieved in Doha, Qatar in February 2019 .

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) 

  • It was constituted by an Act of Parliament in 1988 under the administrative control of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
  • It has been set up as a Central Authority to develop, maintain and manage the National Highways entrusted to it by the Government of India.
    • The authority, however, became operational in February, 1995.
  •  The Authority consists of a full time Chairman, and not more than five full time Members and four part time Members who are appointed by the Central Government. 
  • The part time Members are the Secretary (RT&H), Secretary (Expenditure), Secretary (Planning) and DG (RD) & SS.
  • NHAI has technical, Finance, Administrative and Vigilance Wings at its Headquarters.

About Guinness World Records

  • Guinness World Records – originally the Guinness Book of Records – the ultimate authority on record-breaking achievements, started out as an idea for a book of facts to solve arguments in pubs.
    • The idea came about in the early 1950’s when Sir Hugh Beaver (1890—1967), Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, attended a shooting party in County Wexford. 
  • Guinness World Records documents and celebrates superlative achievements that are the best in the world

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