nagpur in a first of its kind development the states public works department pwd under hybrid annuity model ham which is the pet project of national highways authority of india nhai has decided to execute road works of rs366851 crore within a span of just 18 months the road works with a length of around 1200km have been divided into 22 packages with one to four roads in one packagepwd nagpur circle headed by chief engineer ulhas debadwar has kicked off works of 11 packages worth rs184122 crore in three districts chandrapur 5 wardha 4 and bhandara 2 by issuing work orders to private companies letter of intent loi has been issued to private companies for remaining 11 packages of works worth rs182729 croretwo packages will be executed in nagpur district followed by three in gadchiroli two in gondia three in chandrapur and one in wardha districtof two packages of nagpur district one comprises two roads of the city north ambazari road from jhansi rani square to ambazari lake tpoint and road from ambazari lake to university campus square on amravati road these roads will be concretized under the ham projectremaining roads in the same package are road from patansaongi to fetri to hingna and narkhed to zilpa to saoner to parsheoni roadanother package comprises road from hingna to kanholibara chowk and panchgaon to kuhi to ambhora roadone package of wardha district comprises one road of the city crpf gate hingna to ghorad in seloo tehsil this package also comprises 500 meter stretch of hingna villagechandrapur district has got highest number of eight packages under the projectnagpur district will get two more packages soon and will comprise roads of ramtek tehsil thus total number of packages will increase to 24 and also cost of the worksunder the ham project the private companies which will get the contract to construct the road have to maintain the roads for 10 years the companies will get 40 of total payment after completion of the works and remaining 60 in equal instalments in 10 yearsbhoomipuja of the project in the division is still awaited which is likely to be done before the announcement of 2019 lok sabha electionss schedule hybrid annuity modelpwd use to execute road works in two systems toll tax in which contractor was supposed to execute works with its own money and recover from toll collection and another one governmentfunded works in which contractor used to get total payment after completion of worksstate government is facing financial crisis therefore the government has adopted the model from nhai in which roads on large scale can be constructed within 18 months and payment to be released in 10 yearsanother major advantage of the model is that the contractor has to maintain the road for 10 years otherwise defect liability period is for only three yearsprominent roads under hampench sillari and kanhan to tarsaseoni road in nagpur districtring road to amravati city kaudanypur chandur railwaydhamangaon roads in amravati districtlonar lake