EOT & Hindrance Register Software for NHAI, CPWD Contractors

THE SCALE OF THE PROGRAMME

More highway is being built, faster, than at any point before

India's national highway network expanded more than 60% in a decade, from 91,287 km in 2014 to over 146,500 km by the end of 2025. NHAI beat its FY26 construction target by 15%, building 5,313 km against a spend of Rs 2,44,362 crore. Under Bharatmala Pariyojana, the flagship highway programme, roughly 22,223 km had been built by February 2026 against 26,425 km awarded, with the balance targeted for completion in FY27. For FY27, NHAI has already identified a further 54 highway and expressway projects covering 2,442 km and roughly Rs 1.80 lakh crore of capital investment, spread across 13 states.

WHERE THE DELAYS ACTUALLY COME FROM

The Committee on Estimates already named the top two causes

LAND ACQUISITION189 projects delayed by land acquisition issuesA 2024 Committee on Estimates review found land acquisition the single largest identified cause of project delay across the NHAI portfolio, exactly the kind of hindrance a register is built to log from day one.
ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE64 projects delayed by pending environmental clearanceThe second most common named cause. Both categories are Employer or Authority-side hindrances, not contractor-caused, which is precisely the distinction a hindrance register exists to prove.
NO FIXED AWARD TIMELINESNHAI itself has flagged unpredictable project award timelinesAccording to NHAI's own account, delays also stem from a lack of fixed timelines for declaring project awards, adding schedule uncertainty before work even begins.

A LOGGED EVENT, NHAI-STYLE

What a highway EPC package's hindrance register entry looks like

Illustrative example, not a real client record.

Filed

Hindrance 11: Land not handed over, Ch. 42+300 to 44+100

Land parcel at Ch. 42+300 to 44+100 not handed over as of scheduled date. Hindrance logged in register 03 February 2026, notice issued to Authority Engineer 08 February 2026, within the contract's notice window. Land handover completed and hindrance closed 22 April 2026, a period of 78 days.

SOURCE · Hindrance register entry HR-011 · AE correspondence Ref 2026/PWG3/041 · Site photographs, land status log

BUILT FOR THE HINDRANCE REGISTER CULTURE

Hindrance register, exported the way an AE expects it

Sl. No., description of hindrance, dates of occurrence and removal, period, responsible agency, remarks, and Authority Engineer countersignature status, one click.

NHAI EPC and HAM, CPWD and state PWD, out of the box

Each family checklist is verified against your actual uploaded contract, since notice windows on Indian public contracts are commonly a condition precedent, sometimes as short as 7 to 15 days.

Priced project by project

Per-project pricing is available because that is how Indian infrastructure budgets are actually structured, in addition to the company-wide annual plan.

INDIA PRICING SNAPSHOT

Company-wide or per project, your choice

Rs 25,000

48-hour draft, first project

Rs 50,000–1,00,000

Per formal claim draft

Rs 2,40,000–4,80,000/yr

Company Annual, unlimited users

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INDIA · FREQUENTLY ASKED

Asked in every first call

We work across NHAI, CPWD, and a state PWD project at the same time. Does each keep its own rules?

Yes. Every project carries its own contract family profile, so the notice period, particulars deadline, and claim format are specific to that project, not shared across your portfolio.

Can amounts display in lakhs and crores instead of raw rupee figures?

Indian projects can display contract value and cost figures in lakhs and crores notation as an option, alongside the plain rupee figure.

Our claims usually only get real attention once arbitration starts. Is this still useful before that?

That is exactly the gap it targets. A contemporaneous hindrance register kept from day one is stronger evidence than anything reconstructed once a dispute is already underway. Recent NHAI arbitration outcomes have made that gap very visible; see our post on the hindrance register for the specific case data.

Does this work for HAM projects, not just EPC?

Yes, Hybrid Annuity Model contracts carry their own contract family profile alongside EPC, reflecting HAM's different payment and risk-sharing structure.

What about metro and rail packages, which aren't NHAI at all?

Metro and rail EPC packages typically follow similar hindrance-register and correspondence-heavy conventions to NHAI and CPWD, and the register and evidence locker work the same way regardless of which authority is on the other side of the contract.

CERTIFICATIONS OF CONDUCT

Why you can put your name near it

Draft for expert review

DraftMyEOT is not a law firm and never claims to be. Every output is a draft, built to be reviewed and signed by your contracts lead or consultant.

Nothing invented, ever

No dates, events, or clause numbers appear that you did not supply. Every paragraph shows the evidence reference it was built from.

Your data, walled off

Each company's workspace is isolated, documents sit in private storage, and consultants see only the project they were invited to.

Send your next NHAI, CPWD, or metro package

Send a contract, your delay events, and whatever records exist, tidy or not. A structured draft comes back in 48 hours.

Project

Highway, metro, or rail EPC package, any stage

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EOT claim draft · notice status check · evidence gap list · annexure pack

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