Annual Report 2018-19 Axle Load Limit

(vii) Quadricycles included as Non-Transport Vehicles

The Ministry notied the insertion of the item 'Quadricycle' as a 'non-transport' vehicle under
the Motor Vehicles Act 1988. A Quadricycle is a vehicle of the size of a 3-wheeler but with 4
tyres and fully covered like a car. It has an engine like that of a 3-wheeler. This makes it a
cheap and safe mode of transport for last mile connectivity. Quadricycles were only allowed
for transport usage under the Act, but now has been made usable for non-transport also.
2.4.3 E-initiatives:
(i) Bhoomi Rashi Portal
Recognising that acquisition of land constitutes the rst basic requirement for expansion
and/ or development of a National Highway, and that this process is time consuming, the
Ministry has got an IT application developed for the purpose. Known as BhoomiRashi, the
portal of Ministry of Road Transport & Highways allows for totally digital and paper-less
processing of land acquisition related Notications, and has resulted in transparent, efcient
and error-free handling of land acquisition cases. It has also made real-time tracking of
activities and generation of reports relating to land acquisition possible. The entire process,
from submission of the draft notication, to approval of Competent Authority in the Ministry
and publication of the notication in e-Gazette is now online. The process has also brought
transparency into the system. Earlier, the approved compensation amount used to be parked
with the CALA (Competent Authority for Land Acquisition) but with BhoomiRashi portal,
the compensation amount would be directly transferred into the account of the person
concerned in due course. In addition to this, the complete process is also environment
friendly since there is no physical movement of les – all work is done digitally.
(ii) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Project-eDISHA
eDisha, Digitally Integrated System of Highway Assets is the face of 'Design, Development,
Implementation and Enablement of Technology Solution at Ministry, NHAI and NHIDCL.
This will eliminate data duplication and provide data integrity with a “single source of truth”
along with digitization. Ministry is the main stakeholder alongwith NHAI, NHIDCL, BRO
and other Ministry important departments.
eDISHA will facilitate the w of real time information across departments and ecosystems, so
businesses can make data-driven decisions and manage performance-live.
eDISHA is being implemented in all ROs/BOs of the Ministry, NHAI & NHIDCL along with
Hqrs. ERP will implemented in three Waves out of which WAVE-1 is live handling of
enhanced PMIS on new platform along with about 10,00,000 pages which are digitised and
can be accessed through DMS. Digitization of data is in progress.

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