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Detailed explanation-1: -NEW DELHI: The 27-year-old National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the country’s main highway development agency, has got the 20th chairman with the government appointing a senior UP cadre IAS as its new chief.

Detailed explanation-2: -NHAI appoints Santosh Yadav as chief, Subhasish Panda to be DDA’s Vice Chairman. In April-October of FY22, NHAI could award just about 4,913 km of highways. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Monday has appointed senior bureaucrat Santosh Kumar Yadav as chairman, according to a personnel ministry order.

Detailed explanation-3: -National Highways Authority of India or NHAI Headquarters of the NHAI – New Delhi. It operates under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

Detailed explanation-4: -National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) was constituted by an Act of Parliament in 1988 under the administrative control of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways NHAI has been set up as a Central Authority to develop, maintain and manage the National Highways entrusted to it by the Government of India.