Shri Akhilesh Srivastava presently Chief General Manager (IT & Highway Operations) in National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO)- Indian Highways Management Company Limited (IHMCL) to implement 100% FASTag project across the country.
Shri Akhilesh Srivastava is a B Tech (Gold Medal) from IIT , Global MBA from ISB, PG in InfraDevelopment from NICMAR and currently pursuing course in AI from Stanford University, USA .
Shri Srivastava is one of the most tech-savvy senior government official known globally for his passion for innovative skills and Digital solutions. He is currently working as Chief General Manager (IT & Commercial Operations) in NHAI and is the real man behind the one of the most successful digital program – FASTag, the electronic toll collection system on national highways. In last 4 years at NHAI, he has modernised the Indian highway sector with introduction of IOT devices and latest digital technologies in the project life cycle of highways. Completed geo-fencing the national highways and developed user friendly Mobile Apps. His recent initiative of development of AI based Big data platform – NHAI Data Lake is in the national news since the last few months and has transformed NHAI into first fully Digital construction sector organisation of the country.
- He is a pioneer of ITS (Intelligent Transportation System) and was member of ITS policy drafting committee. He is also Member of Bureau of Indian Standards : ITS committee and International Committee WG-5 on ITS.
- Apart from these he development of India’s 1st Online Dispute Portal (ODR) with CIDC launched by Vice President of India -2017,
- He authored one of the bestselling book of 2019 – Digital Construction Management, which talks about mass scale adoption of IR – 4.0 (Industrial Revolution – 4.0) technologies in the construction sector.
- He is member of many committees of BIS, IITs, ECI and CIDC.
- Recipient of Life time achievement “ Vishwakarma Award”
- Honoured as one among “51 GLOBAL LEADER ON DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY”by an UN agency in a global survey.
IndianBureaucracy.com wishes Shri Akhilesh Srivastava the very best .
About IHMCL: NHAI jointly with its Concessionaires and Financial Institutions incorporated Indian Highways Management Company Limited (IHMCL) on 26.12.2012 under the Companies Act, 1956 to carry out Electronic Tolling and other ancillary projects of NHAI. Indian Highways Management Company Limited (IHMCL) was incorporated on 26.12.2012 under the Companies Act, 1956.
It was incorporated to carry out Electronic Tolling and other allied works by NHAI jointly with its Concessionaires and Financial Institutions. The shareholding pattern of stakeholders is NHAI-41.38%, Concessionaires-33.81% and Financial Institutions 24.81%.
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