Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The Tamizhaga Vivasaigal Sangham plans to organise a protest in two weeks against the proposed bypass road from Kangeyampalayam to Mettupalayam. State president of the sangham M.R. Sivasamy told presspersons here on Tuesday that he was also seeking the support of political parties and the protestors would stage a picketing …
Delay in completion of port road connectivity (PRC) projects and loss of toll revenue had resulted in a loss of around Rs 873.85 crore to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. The CAG observed this while reviewing the operations of special …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has served notices to 14 authorities directing them to remove all boards, nails and advertisements from trees falling under their jurisdictions and has directed the authorities to de-concretise the trees. Following a petition filed by Aditya N. Prasad and others, the Tribunal issued notices to …
Orissa High Court judgement dated 24/04/2013 in the matter of Sanjeev Kumar Sharma & others vs Union Of India and others on land acquisition for Bhubaneswar-Puri Section National Highway No.203.
Suggestion came when neither the NHAI nor the Pune civic body was willing to undertake the task of replanting trees The Bombay High Court on Tuesday suggested the Pune Municipal Corporation to take the help of school and college students for replanting of those trees which shall be cut for …
The Coal Ministry has written to the Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI) for streamlining granting of clearances by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) for various coal mining projects in the country. The Coal Ministry has asked the CCI to consider parallel processing of environmental clearance (EC) and forest …
Putting an end to the face-off between the National Highways Authority of India and Ministry of Environment & Forests, the latter has delinked environmental and forest clearances in case of all linear projects like roads, transmission lines, rail tracks. The Supreme Court's Forest Bench last week allowed the MoEF to …
New Delhi: Projects worth over Rs 7 lakh crore — which is equivalent to almost half the government spending in the current financial year — are held up in the absence of environmental and forest clearances, land and fuel, putting strain on the creaky infrastructure in the country and becoming …
Work could soon begin in a clutch of stranded highway projects with likely combined investments of over R20,000 crore, as the Union environment ministry is set to give them approvals in one go. The ministry’s blanket approval is enabled by its decision to de-link the environment and forest clearances (EC …
In a bid to drive out the highways sector from a severe financial crunch, the Economic Survey proposed to ease exit norms for developers to free up equity for new projects. “In current market conditions, these firms are unable to raise new equity. Exit route needs to be eased so …
After a concerted push from the road transport ministry, the finance ministry has agreed to consider offering concessions to stuck highway projects under the public private partnership (PPP) mode. Government sources indicated that the approval came through at a meeting between finance minister P Chidambaram and road transport minister CP …
The 555-km Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad project from which the developer GMR Infrastructure pulled out in early January citing huge delays in clearances, has now got all requisite approvals from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). According to sources, with Gujarat, one of the two states through which the highway passes, also …
The troubled roads sector can expect a relief package from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), which has called a meeting of the road transport ministry and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Monday. Government sources say that the meeting is likely to discuss the bottlenecks that have led …
The troubled roads sector can expect a relief package from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), which has called a meeting of the road transport ministry and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Monday. Government sources say that the meeting is likely to discuss the bottlenecks that have led …
New NHAI guidelines delay work on road projects New National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) guidelines making forest clearance and acquisition of minimum quantum of land mandatory before inviting bids is delaying road projects to be executed in the public-private partnership mode. As per the guidelines, a project will be …
JAIPUR: In a major relief to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in Rajasthan, the forest advisory committee (FAC) on February 4 granted clearance for widening of the Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad highway. With the approval, work on the project is expected to begin soon. FAC, the statutory body for advising on …
Infra ministers, govt bodies join the chorus as murmurs about corruption resurface When Jairam Ramesh was replaced as environment minister some 18 months ago, loud sighs of relief from industry greeted the news. Ramesh, in the short period at the helm of the ministry, had acquired a reputation for inflexibility, …
90 Trees Cut Near Butler Palace Lucknow: A Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Thursday restrained the state authorities from felling trees in the city for widening of roads. The court also asked if the authorities have any plan to plant new trees at alternative places to compensate for …
Minister says delay is due to adverse weather and hurdles in land acquisition Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways C.P. Joshi on Tuesday revealed that only 100 km of the 2,400-km Trans-Arunachal Highway announced under the Prime Minister’s package for Arunachal Pradesh had been completed so far. Prime Minister …
Days after the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) dragged the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to the apex court alleging delays in granting of forest clearance, the ministry has granted forest clearance to the 555-km Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad National Highway widening project that had first sparked the conflict. While the …
