Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
The Centre is planning to reject the Pachauri panel report on the Sethusamudram project and set up a new committee to re-examine ‘Alignment 4A’ suggested by the Supreme Court. If needed, the panel will identify an alternative route that avoids the Ram Sethu. Walking a tightrope between ally DMK and …
The contentious Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Bill, 2011, which was taken up by the Cabinet on Tuesday, had to be referred to a group of ministers (GoM), as several ministries felt their concerns had not been adequately addressed. The Bill, which has far-reaching implications and ramifications, has …
Raising concern over the dismal progress in building roads, the Prime Minister’s Office has asked the Ministry of Road Transport for a “work plan” to achieve the national highways target promised by the Prime Minister. “The targets have been made public by the PM and fully owned by the ministry. …
With many highway projects finding it difficult to reach financial closure, the government is seeking a review of guidelines for lending to such projects. The finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India are considering a proposal under which banks could treat escrow accounts as collateral for projects where annuities …
New Delhi Problems with land acquisition and environmental clearances have delayed 58 ongoing national highways projects, including 18 in Assam, seven in Jammu and Kashmir and five each in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, said the ministry of road transport and highways in response to a written question. The projects …
In a bid to provide much-needed impetus to the fund-starved highways sector, the road transport ministry is looking at increasing road projects to be awarded through Engineering Procurement Contract (EPC). For the current fiscal, the target is to award around 4,000 km of road projects. “We have to meet our …
Beware when you take a newly constructed National Highway, lest you land in the woods. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) actually intends to construct new highways in bits and pieces, as it is unable to secure environment clearance for the entire project that involves construction of stretches …
To reduce time and cost overrun in highway projects, the government on Friday approved a model document for construction of highways. It is expected the move would also enable faster roll-out of projects. The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure approved the model engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement document for constructing …
New Delhi:Highway developers facing acute equity crunch would soon get a breather with National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) likely to spend at least Rs 9,000 crore in construction of two-and-half lane highways. The cabinet is likely to give a go-ahead to a proposal on Friday to start construction of …
Contractor had to complete the project in 36 months, but not a single km has been built. After the World Bank Institutional Integrity Unit exposed the ‘fraudulent and corrupt’ practices of contractors involved in highway projects, the roads ministry has found itself in yet another controversy. The cost of four …
The highways ministry is planning to set up a corporation for building Greenfield expressways across the country. The move comes after the ministry shelved its earlier plan of floating an autonomous authority on the lines of NHAI. Government sources said that the idea of corporation has found the favour since …
Gandhinagar: Gujarat government will raise the issue of releasing a portion of money collected asoilcess and depositedin the Central government coffers. The Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) collects 50 paise per ton from crude oil carriers asoilcess and has deposited nearly Rs 5 crore with the Centre till date. GMB officials …
Petroleum Ministry seeks setting up of an inter-ministerial group to draw up an action plan for pollution issues The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has sought setting up of an inter-ministerial Committee (IMC) with representatives from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the Ministry of Heavy Industries, Urban Development …
New Delhi The Planning Commission and the ministry of road, highway & transport have decided to resolve their differences over the the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway, billed as the country's first such project under the public-private partnership (PPP) model. In a letter to Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, road minister …
Despite the civic administration’s assurances that the garbage collection crisis in the city has been nearly resolved, the central government mandate to adopt the Euro IV vehicle emission norms could upset the civic body’s plans. Sources said the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways’ decision on implementing the Bharat …
New Delhi: Delhi and Haryana have proposed a four-lane road from Dwarka to Dhansa-Badli-Jhajjar to de-congest traffic on National Highway 8. The proposed 25.1km road would be an alternative route for IGI Airport to traffic coming from Jhajjar, Badli and Najafgarh. While the Delhi government will construct only 7.1km, Haryana …
Shimla: The ambitious project of the municipal corporation (MC) to rake funds by way of imposing green tax on vehicles from outside entering the state capital may have to wait. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) does not allow the installation of digitised electronic barriers on its roads. The …
New Delhi: The government’s push to give more accessibility to rural areas and improve old roads continues to gain strength. In the past eight years, at least 1.25 lakh km per year was added to India’s road network. Moreover, the percentage of surfaced road — both concrete and bituminous — …
New Delhi Only those public-private partnership (PPP) projects in the roads sector which have got all other clearances need to be put up before the PPP Appraisal Committee (PPPAC), the finance ministry has told the ministry of road transport and highways. The PPP-AC, which is chaired by the secretary-economic affairs, …
RoadMin for upgradation of 20,000 km highways to two-lane standards on EPC basis during the XIIth Five-Year Plan To accelerate highway building process, Road Transport Ministry is all set to bid out at least 3,000 km of projects this fiscal and 20,000 km by 2017 under EPC mode that minimises …
