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AKHILESH SRIVASTAVA

Akhilesh Srivastava is currently leading the World Economic Forum’s initiative Road Safety 2.0 in India. Road Safety 2.0 is “Shaping the Future of Road Safety in India” with a technology-driven approach to create a human-centric road ecosystem, where technology compensates for the human limitations to improve road safety.

Mr. Srivastava is a global technology leader and has successfully led many e-governance projects like FASTag (electronic toll collection system of India), e-Tendering platform (Central Public Procurement Portal used by almost all central, state and PSUs for bidding), e-Measuring Book (for transparent measurement of the project under execution), citizen-centric highway information mobile App-Sukhad Yatra, Geo-Fencing of national highways and AI powered NHAI Data Lake

Before this, Mr. Akhilesh Srivastava was Chief General Manager at NHAI, looking after IT & Commercial Operations. He also held many important assignments like Board Member and COO IHMCL. During his tenure at NHAI, he introduced many digital technologies in the highway sector like Drones, LiDAR, GIS, Project Management Systems etc. The successful implementation of FASTag is one of his most remarkable achievements.

The FASTag has revolutionized the logistics and highway sector with an efficient and transparent toll collection on over 900 toll booths across the country. The FASTag is one of the biggest electronic toll collection systems in the world, with over 70 lakhs transactions every day collecting more than Rs 110 crores daily (annualized to Rs 40,000 crores). This has not only led to an increase in revenue but also led to a drastic reduction in waiting time at toll plazas, saving another at least Rs 20,000 crores per year apart from reducing carbon emission due to fuel-burning at toll plazas by at least 6 million tons annually.

Mr. Akhilesh Srivastava’s other futuristic & innovative creation  NHAI Data Lake has been recognized globally as one of the best digital solutions for end to end project management systems of large Infra projects, which involves multi-stakeholders. The success of Data Lake is evident from the fact that NHAI constructed over 4200 km of national highway in 20-21, probably the highest ever since the inception of NHAI in 1996, despite the pandemic. Recognising the importance of NHAI Data Lake, India’s premier institute on Artificial Intelligence - IIT Delhi is working on it to create AI-based algorithms for improving project management and road safety in India.

Not only this, he also successfully initiated the highway asset monetization program through the InVIT route as CEO of the NHAI InVIT company.

A few of his other Key Achievements include:


 * Successfully led India’s first GPS-based tolling pilot on 1450 Kms long Delhi-Mumbai stretch.
 * Development of India's 1st Online Dispute Portal (ODR) with CIDC launched by the Vice President of India -2017.
 * As a member of Niti Aayog’s ITS committee, drafted India’s first policy on Intelligent Transportation systems.

Awards & Accolades:


 * Honoured amongst “51 Global Leaders on Digital Technology” in - 2019.
 * Lifetime achievement “Vishwakarma Award” by CIDC.
 * “Golden Globe Award” for Geo-fencing of national highways.
 * Recognition by Indian Road Congress for drafting policy paper of ITS
 * Many commendations & awards in his long and illustrious career.

Mr. Akhilesh Srivastava is also the author of the best-selling and very popular book- ‘Digital Construction Management, which led to the introduction of digital construction teachings in many universities and institutions.

He recently authored another book “Artificial Intelligence in Infrastructure Development”, which is likely to be available for reading from 26th January 2022.