The Indian Roads Congress serves as a national platform for exchanging knowledge and sharing expertise across all aspects of road infrastructure, including the construction and maintenance of roads bridges, tunnels and transportation systems. It covers key areas such as technology, equipment, research, planning, finance, taxation, and policy-related matters. More specifically, the objectives of the Congress are:

• To advise the legislation and provide a channel to pool collective wisdom in order to promote and encourage the excellence for building the road infrastructure conforming to the cutting edge environmental friendly clean techniques; use of indigenously available new/innovative materials; to formulate and promote the use of standard specifications/guidelines uniformly through-out the country for planning, design, construction, operation & maintenance of roads, bridges, tunnels and road transportation.​

• To promote efficient and well-integrated transport system and creation of mass awareness to follows traffic regulations aiming at zero road crash fatalities and contribute to the economic growth and quality of life and hence serves the public interest by enhancing mobility and delivery of safe, secure and environmentally responsible transport.​

• To align itself to global initiatives of environmental strategy for promotion of cleaner, less energy intensive and less polluting construction techniques, use of recycled wastes; minimize drawing of natural resources and encourage the profession to aim at earning carbon credit in life cycle analysis for construction / transportation projects under Environment Management Plan (EMP) and earn Green Credit.

• To pool knowledge with exchange facility with to the reputed national and international organizations engaged in the profession and share publications and literature conforming to cutting edge technologies.

• To promote R&D activities of applied nature aiming at (i) “Appropriate Carbon calculators and processes for getting carbon credits in life cycle analysis for road/transportation projects under Environment Management Plan (EMP” (ii) reduction in road accidents through inclusive approach (human factor, road geometry and vehicle condition) and (iii) conserve the natural resources viz stone aggregates / bitumen / cement / steel etc. for the set goals versus merchandise for development of road infrastructure.

• To endeavor for imparting Skill development of construction work force, training of technicians; engineers and machine operators.

• To publish the proceedings of annual/m id-term council meets; seminars; workshops; webinars; conferences etc.; periodicals (monthly Indian Highways, quarterly journals); State of the Art Reports (SOAR) and other literature for promotion of the objectives of the Indian Roads Congress.

• To achieve its objectives, IRC has been relentlessly working by collaborating with all the stakeholders viz, MoRTH, NHAI, NHIDCL, IAHE, BRO, MES, NRIDA, CPWD, NEC, CRRI, MoRD, MoUD, as well as state and union territory public works departments, public sector undertakings, IITs, engineering colleges, research organizations, contractors, and consultants. Detailed information about activities of IRC is available at Website- www.irc.nic.in

ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

To achieve the above objectives, the following activities are undertaken annually by IRC with the approval of the Executive Committee in consultation with the concerned stakeholders.

• Annual Session of four days, wherein General Body meeting is held. All IRC members are invited during the Annual Session.

• Two meetings of Secretary/Engineer-in-Chief/Chief Engineers of All State PWDs/UTs in India during Mid Term and Annual Session.

• Three Meetings of Council (Governing Body)-details of Council given in Para 4 hereinafter.

• 6-8 meetings of Executive Committee (Management Committee)

• At least four meetings of each Technical Committee.

• About 10 new Codes/Standards/Guidelines are brought out annually and 10 old Codes/Standards/Guidelines are revised every year.

• Two Meetings of IMRA committee and Highway Research Board.

• Publication of different periodicals – 12 Monthly “Indian Highways’, 4 quarterly Journal, 2 Highway Research Journal and 1 Highway Research Record are published every year.

• Medals and commendation certificates provided to Authors during Annual Session.

• Lifetime Achievement Award will also be presented to the eminent engineers during the Annual Session.

• 15 to 25 technical papers pertaining to road/bridge design, construction, maintenance including technology, equipment, research and all connected policy issues are discussed every year during the Annual Session.

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• At least 6 meetings of Committee of Accreditation of New Materials.