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. …
Nearly 35,000 trees will have to be felled to make way for widening of the 223-km long National Highway 218 that passes through Bijapur, Humnabad and Gulbarga, affecting the already thin forest cover in the region. Bijapur, Gulbarga and Bidar have a negligible forest area of three per cent. In …
New Delhi: Private road contractors will now be held responsible for the quality of roads they build. A new scheme of road contracting and construction approved by the cabinet will make the contractors responsible for the quality for roads for two years and for structures like bridges and flyovers for …
SHILLONG: The District administration of Ri Bhoi has been make notable progress in acquiring land for construction of the Umsning Bypass, an integral part of the Umiam- Jorabat four-lane road project. The State Government was compelled to construct the road from the Umsning Bypass due to stiff opposition from Ri …
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: There has been an added push in the clearance of key infrastructure projects since the return of P Chidambaram in the finance minister’s saddle. Sources in the government said that the ministry of forest and environment (MoEF) has cleared about 80 files relating to road projects—which were awaiting …
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 …
The Odisha Government on Monday embarked on a road map to tackle the growing challenge of fly ash generation in the State. With more power plants planned in the years to come and coal extraction set to witness a multi-fold rise, it has asked the Revenue Department as well as …
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 …
Scores of landowners, whose land is set to be acquired for the proposed Sangrur bypass, have allegedly discovered that the map of the proposed alignment shown to them in Sangrur SDM’s office was different from the actual alignment, which the National Highway Authority of India intended to follow during construction. …
After a very successful 2011-12, in terms of the number of projects it awarded, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has failed to receive any bid for as many as six projects in the recent months. NHAI saw a huge demand for its projects last fiscal, when it awarded …
New Delhi: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), it seems, has developed cold feet over its ongoing tussle with the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway operator. The authority had issued a show-cause notice to the operator — Delhi Gurgaon Super Connectivity Ltd (DGSCL) — in February this year on why its contract should …
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 …
The long-delayed Satellite Town Ring Road (STRR) project to connect Bangalore’s satellite towns - Ramanagar, Dobbespet, Devanahalli, Hoskote, Attibele and Magadi will be implemented by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the State Public Works Department (PWD). While NHAI will develop the stretch between Dobbespet and Hoskote via …
In its effort to decongest the city and prohibit parking on footpath and encroachments especially by street vendors, the Corporation will formulate a parking policy by November. The civic body had already entrusted an agency Civitas Urban Solutions with the preparation of a detailed study report focusing on the parking …
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, …
Few other divisions of the Kochi Corporation have as many infrastructure projects lined up as the Vyttila division. Vyttila is the biggest junction in the State and is home to the inter-modal mobility hub. A railway halt is expected at the adjacent Ponnurunni, so that Vyttila can lay claim to …
The Rs 250-crore road project of the Delhi-based DS Construction (DSC) Limited in Chhattisgarh is heading for a bumpy ride with company’s another effort to set up toll plaza going into vain. The Chhattisgarh High Court has granted stay on the proposed toll plaza in Sunder Nagar locality on the …
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 …
Bill envisages rehabilitation & resettlement of squatters if land they occupy is acquired; Infra ministries irked at this inclusion. If the Cabinet approves the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012, then squatters too will have to be given rehabilitation and resettlement packages if the land they occupy is …
Guwahati, July 11: The team sent by the Centre to assess flood damage in Assam today split into three groups and visited different affected districts, where the crop loss in the current wave has been pegged at Rs 993 crore. Till date, 125 persons have perished in the floods, which …
