- The Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has launched
- Bidder Information Management System (BIMS),
- Bhoomi Rashi and Public Financial Management System (PFMS) linkage,
two IT initiatives of the Road Transport & Highways Ministry.
- It is aimed at expediting pre-construction processes relating to bidding and land acquisition respectively.
- BIMS - streamlining the process of pre-qualification of bidders for EPC Mode of contracts for National Highway works.
- The portal, Bhoomi Rashi, was developed by MoRTH and NIC and it comprises the entire revenue data of the country.
- Integration of PFMS with Bhoomi Rashi - one of the key functionalities to facilitate payment related to compensation for land acquisition to all the beneficiaries directly.