Heavy commercial vehicles combined with high pavement temperatures induce higher stresses in base and surface courses layers resulting in premature pavement distresses such as rutting and cracking. Therefore, it's essential to create a binder that performs better in heat and is more elastic and rigid so that it may be utilized to bear heavy axle loads. For several years, efforts have been made in India and worldwide to develop new pavement materials and improve the specifications of paving mixes and their constituents. One of the emerging solutions is use of a French asphalt mix known as “Enrobé à Module Élevé (EME)” or “High-Modulus Asphalt (HiMA) Mix”. This mix offers unique performance characteristics such as high stiffness and durability, good resistance to permanent deformation and fatigue. Therefore, HiMA mixes also referred as High Performance (HiPER) Bituminous Mixes. EME mixes uses a hard grade binder (HB), have higher binder content and lower air voids. The unique challenges in preparation of HiPER bituminous mix is selection of bitumen, which shall be hard grade bitumen (stiffer than VG40). In India, binder stiffer than VG40 are not commonly available commercially. Also, selection of modifiers used to produce hard grade binders and to enhance the performance of the binders that provides higher resistance to permanent deformation as well as to cracking. The main focus of this study is to find potential of modifier(s) to develop hard grade binder (HB) and use of HB for the preparation of mixes at various binder content and evaluated with the target of producing HiPER bituminous mix. Marshall stability and indirect tensile strength (ITS) tests are conducted to assess the mixes for HiPER bituminous mix