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. …
GURGAON: Sunday was a relative breeze but anxiety is growing over the Delhi-Gurgaon commute - and the mega hurdle of a toll gate - from Monday. It's the same jams again since toll has been re-introduced, even if peak hours are exempt. Said Manoj Kumar a doctor, who is a …
SRINAGAR: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah today gave nod to the construction of Srinagar and Jammu Ring Roads to decongest traffic and provide alternate communication for commuters taking care up to the year 2042. Approving the prestigious and most required two road projects involving an expenditure of abut Rs. 3000 crores …
Leading lights of the ongoing Delhi Master Plan-2021 review led by Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath, Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna and Delhi Urban Arts Commission chairman Raj Rewal discussed and debated the implications and suggestions to be incorporated in the finalised plan at a workshop here on Monday. Other prominent …
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 …
Most roads in developed countries are built with public funds and are free to users. The rationale is that roads facilitate economic activity, provide linkage between communities and access to vital services. In countries facing budget restraints, toll roads provide a welcome source of financing for construction and maintenance of …
Ranchi, Sept. 19: Government officials and a representative of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Ranchi, will attend a meeting in New Delhi tomorrow to take the first step in securing green clearances for the Mahulia-Baharagora-Kharagpur road, over six months after an agency was picked to execute the widening project. …
New Delhi: This time around, there will be no escape for the Gurgaon expressway contractor if it fails to fulfill conditions laid down in the MoU, which was signed with NHAI and lenders on Tuesday. The agreement spells out the timeframe and specifies conditions such as permission from agencies like …
New Delhi: Even after Delhi high court gave two weeks to NHAI and Gurgaon expressway contractor to ink an outof-court settlement, both parties have failed to come to an agreement. Sources said the consortium of banks, which financed the project and face the prospect of losing their investment, would go …
More than a year has gone since the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) felled over 60,000 trees along the National Highway 46 for six-laning of the road, but it has failed to take up the restoration of the green cover till date. The lethargic attitude of the NHAI to …
New Delhi Government is targeting awarding road construction projects of 4,000 km length in the current fiscal through the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode. Of this, bids for road projects of 2,650 km length has been invited by ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH). The remaining will be …
GAIL pulled up for undue benefit of Rs 246 crore to private firms The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pulled up Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for hiring a drilling rig from Reliance Industries (RIL) without calling for competitive bids. It also indicted GAIL (India) for giving over …
Concessionaire had failed to comply with orders In a significant development, a Division Bench of the Punjab & Haryana High Court on Tuesday restrained the Delhi-Gurgaon Super Connectivity Limited ( DGSCL) from collecting toll tax on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway for 15 days. The Bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Jasbir Singh …
Annoyed over the increasing chaos on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway and the “failure” of the concessionaire to provide relief to motorists, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday stayed the collection of toll tax on the expressway for 15 days. The direction comes into force from Tuesday midnight. The National …
Calcutta, Sept. 4: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has scrapped the four-laning of NH35, which connects Barasat and Bongaon in North 24-Parganas, because of the state government’s failure to arrange for land in the past six years. The NHAI informed the government about its decision during a recent …
New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India has drawn CAG’s flak for the potential loss of Rs 874 crore on account of delays in completion of projects for connecting major ports through highways. The authority also incurred a revenue loss of over Rs 127 crore on account of delay …
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 …
Social activists have urged the State government to order a detailed investigation into the “vanishing hills and hillocks and pristine waterbodies” of Salem district, which fall prey to mindless and illegal mining for commercial purposes. Saying that the loss to the State exchequer would run to Rs.1000 crore, members of …
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 …
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 …
