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 …
Stung by the “abrupt and unilateral” walkout of the GMR Group from the 555-km-long Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad National Highway project alleging delays in approvals, the ministry of road transport and highways and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) are weighing various options, including initiating procedures to debar the firm from upcoming …
NHAI likely to take ministry to SC today for ‘failing to comply with delinking order’ The tussle between the environment ministry and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) over who caused the alleged delays in approvals in highway projects came to a head on Tuesday with the NHAI threatening …
Joshi issues directive to speed up ongoing projects With private players evincing little interest in taking up road projects, the Centre has scaled down targets for awarding National Highway projects for the current financial year by over 50 per cent. After a review meeting the Union Ministry of Road Transport …
In what could bolster the confidence of lenders in highway projects, they may be given the facility of a charge on the receivables. Currently, the lenders have a lien on the escrow account where the receivables are deposited but they hardly get to exercise the right. From the escrow account, …
The Central Government has included a proposal for construction of a 285-km-long two-lane alternative national highway to connect Barak Valley with Guwahati via Harangajao-Turuk and Nellie, in its Modified SARDP-NE Programme. This was disclosed by Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Ajanta Neog in the State Assembly here today. She also …
With development of road infrastructure taking a backseat in North Eastern States due to various reasons, the Centre has formulated a special purpose vehicle for improvement and construction of over 10,000 km of roads. Through the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for North East (SARDP-NE), the Ministry Road Transport and …
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister C. P. Joshi on Sunday said the Centre would shortly sanction Rs.4,355 crore for construction of roads of the length of 1,302 km in Rajasthan after its recent decision for development of infrastructure through public-private partnership. Dedicating three newly-built road underpasses at Vaishali Nagar …
Faced with an acute shortage in funds affecting the financial closure of some 50 major road projects, Indian highway builders have sought the government’s immediate intervention to allow them to exit fully from completed projects. Infrastructure firms, which are now required to stay invested in a road project for years …
New Delhi: The Haryana government is working out details of its ambitious plan to buy out the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway from the private concessionaire as a way to end traffic jams on the toll plaza. In an exclusive interview with TOI, Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the state wanted …
In 2011-12, projects covering 7,994 km were awarded After a three-month lull, the government has set the ball rolling for giving out Rs 14,000-crore worth of national highway projects. About 40 companies will be in the fray for 30-odd projects in this tranche. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) …
New Delhi: The problem of polluting commercial vehicles breaking down on Delhi roads will finally be addressed now. The transport department, which at present operates only one centre in Burari for pollution check of commercial vehicles, will soon get centre another at Najafgarh. The centre, which will be run by …
National highways will now be constructed on the concepts of spot improvement and corridor redevelopment to take the financial burden off the government and make it more public-friendly. Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways C. P. Joshi has approved two pilot projects in this regard. At the Hero Honda …
In what spells trouble for the infrastructure sector, around Rs 25,000-crore highways projects are awaiting funding and seeking extension of financial closure deadline. These projects constitute 23 packages and comprise 2,500 km of construction. The project award pace of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has also slowed down …
The record 8,000 km of road projects awarded last year has just got clipped by 29 per cent. More than 2,000 km of the roads awarded last year have asked for extra time to raise funds to finance the constructions. The amount locked up is about Rs 23,000 crore for …
New Delhi: Should the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway be bought back by the government and nationalized? With indications that the 32-lane toll plaza will not be able to handle the rise in traffic flow in the coming years, demands for such a course of action are getting louder. The private concessionaire has …
New Delhi The government on Thursday approved nine road projects of 1,226 km and worth R11,597 crore from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, as part of its effort to give an impetus to investments and accelerate economic growth. A finance ministry statement said on Thursday that the relevant …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the shipping ministry, the governments of West Bengal and Orissa to amicably resolve the Kolkata Port limit expansion issue within two weeks. The Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) and the West Bengal government have challenged the Orissa HC’s judgement that scrapped the notifications …
With more than 400 road and National Highways projects stuck for want of environment, forest and wildlife clearances, the Centre is planning for a single window to remove the bottlenecks. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has drafted a proposal about “need to have a streamlined mechanism for …
New Delhi: As 39 highway projects are awaiting financial closure and 15-17 are witnessing time-overruns, the highways ministry officials will brainstorm with developers, bankers, financial institutions and finance ministry officials over the next two days to identify the reasons behind funding problems and ways to solve them. Leading highway developers …
In a first, the road transport ministry is firming up plans to upgrade around 10,000 km of national highways across the country in two years. The upgrade will be done under road maintenance programme funded by the government through Gross Budgetary Support. The upgrade or recarpeting of the roads will …
