Maintenance of Highways An Evaluation

Sudha Mahalingam This paper attempts to assess the adequacy of maintenance efforts with reference to normative specifications for one category of physical capital assets, viz, highways. It is a State-level evaluation where the actual maintenance expenditure on highways in every State is compared with the State-specific norms prescribed for the purpose in order to identify those States/UTs where the maintenance efforts measured in terms of expenditure on maintenance deviate from the desirable levels.