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 …
KOLKATA, 17 June: In a strange bit of irony the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) is seeking to acquire 2,500 acres of land in Nandigram where the state government has stopped all acquisition activities following a violent agitation over land acquisition for industrial purpose in 2007. There is nothing unusual about …
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways sanctioned five new national highways for Himachal on Tuesday. The highways will be upgraded out of the existing routes. The ministry also agreed to fund the 1.7-kilometre Swarghat tunnel project on the Chandigarh-Manali road. The projects were sanctioned at a meeting between …
New Delhi: The uproar over the Bhopal gas-leak judgment has put the role of several UPA ministers and functionaries, including those in the newly reconstituted group of ministers (GoM), under scrutiny yet again. While the UPA might have decided to set up the GoM as a facesaver in the midst …
The cabinet committee on infrastructure (CCI) approved highway projects worth Rs 2,500 crore today. These highways will come up across Gujarat, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and will be built under the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP). The CCI also approved the four-laning of 123 km Jetpur-Somnath …
NEW DELHI: Reflecting a sluggish growth in construction of national highways, the surface transport ministry could utilise just about 40% of the Rs 30,000 crore allocated for 2009-10. Despite the inability to meet the target, the ministry, however, plans an annual borrowing of Rs 20,000 crore over the next 15 …
THE environment ministry has formed a panel to examine the impact of 17 projects, relating to mining and infrastructure development, on conservation of tiger. The four-member committee of former National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) chief P K Sen and NTCA members Prakash Murlidhar Amte, Samar Singh and Urmila Pingle will …
Praveen Kumar Singh New Delhi: Construction of a less than nine kilometre road through the Pench reserve forest has got held up for the last one year between the environment ministry and the road and highways ministry, with both only writing innumerable letters to each other. The delay in beginning …
To silence critics who decry acquisition of land for infrastructure projects, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has sought the power to vest back unused acquired land to the original owner. In the draft National Highways Amendment Bill 2010, the Ministry has proposed a clause that if a planned …
Expressing serious concern that in the absence of any regulatory legal mechanism, very few Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) signed by steel companies with mineral-rich states were translating on the ground, the high-level Inter-Ministerial Group has pitched for
After the public feuding over Bt brinjal, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is at the centre of another policy dispute with ministries of road transport and commerce for holding up critical development and industrial projects. Among the projects held up for clearance is a highway construction through Pench tiger reserve, part …
Even after Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath complained to the Prime Minister over the progress of highways being stalled by the Environment Ministry, Jairam Ramesh seems in no mood to relent. In a letter to Nath, Ramesh has pointed out that the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) …
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, whose ministry has been come under severe criticism from his many colleagues in the government, more specifically Minister for Road Transport Kamal Nath for
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to bypass states that are slow on acquiring land for national highway projects. Barring Goa, none of the states that lag behind in land acquisition are governed by the Congress.
