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New Delhi: With award of highway projects slowing down due to bad market sentiment, the government is banking on rolling out about 3,000-4,000 km highway projects with 100% financial support. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which has identified these stretches, is likely to spend about Rs 15,000-Rs 20,000 …
The projects cut across the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka The government is likely to give nod for construction of 11 road projects worth about Rs 15,000 crore this week, a government official said. "Road Ministry has sent a proposal for building 11 highway projects to the …
Ranchi, July 10: In a fillip to national highways in Jharkhand, the Union ministry of environment and forests today gave its final environmental clearance for widening an 80km stretch of NH-33 between Ranchi and Jamshedpur, delay over which has held up the Rs 1,500 crore-plus project since April 2011. A …
Ranchi, July 9: A crucial meeting scheduled at the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF), New Delhi, tomorrow will decide the fate of the ambitious over Rs 1,500-crore NH-33 four-laning project between Ranchi and Jamshedpur, which is stuck in the absence of a green nod. National Highways Authority of …
The widening of NH-6 is slicing apart the central Indian forest landscape. WII prescribes flyovers worth Rs 1,200 crore to protect over 15,000 sq km of wilderness but the NHAI worries the cost is too much FIRST, THE stake: the heart of the central Indian forest landscape and the future …
A raging controversy has erupted over land acquisition for the proposed widening of the Dehra Dun-Haridwar highway to four lanes on the Kuanwala stretch near here by the National Highways Authority of India with villagers blocking the road seeking enforcement of the national land acquisition norms and compensation as given …
New Delhi: Poor economic conditions and volatile markets are now taking a toll on the highway sector, which had so far been an outlier in an economy where activity had slowed down considerably over the last couple of years. Industry players say with access to equity drying up, developers are …
Shimla: The cash-strapped Shimla Municipal Corporation (MC) will have to wait for some more time before it starts getting revenue from the green tax which was to be imposed on all outside vehicles entering Shimla as clearance from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is still awaited. Finding it …
New Delhi: The highways ministry now aims to award 9,000 km of national highways (NH) during this financial year. It has also set a target of constructing at least 12-13 km a day. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has planned to build at least 3,000 km, which is 500 …
Rajasthan, which had prided itself on leading the way in relocation of villagers from its tiger reserves, is now facing a backlash. Villagers living inside Sariska reserve are in agitation mode and are refusing to be relocated. Their complaint is that the `10 lakhs being offered to them by the …
Delay in land acquisition is proving to be a stumbling block in expediting road projects as 16 schemes worth about Rs 15,000 crore are stalled due to it. “Sixteen major highway projects in four states entailing about Rs 15,000 crore investment are stalled due to inordinate delays in land acquisition,” …
SHILLONG: The State Government is preparing its written submission on the jinxed Umiam-Jorabat four-lane road project to be submitted before the Gauhati High Court, following a direction from the court. The Gauhati High Court asked the State Government to file the written submission on the basis of a PIL filed …
KOCHI: The District Collector has ordered the setting up of an empowered committee to recommend long-term programmes for the conservation of the Periyar river. The committee will consist of engineers, green activists and members from the panchayat. “A number of studies on the river have been undertaken, however, none of …
TARDY PROGRESS Inquiry committee of road ministry finds World Bank Institutional Integrity Unit report on Lucknow-Muzaffarpur highway project true Aprobe panel of the road ministry has recommended a CBI investigation into allegations of fraud against private contractors involved in the Lucknow-Muzaffarpur highway project. The inquiry committee, instituted by the Ministry …
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture has pulled up the National Highways Authority for its laggard pace in completing projects. It has called NHAI’s 20 kilometer per day target for highway construction as a ‘distant dream’. “NHAI is not in a position to complete any project whether …
Three years after over a lakh trees were axed and nearly two lakh plants uprooted for widening of the National Highway-I, Punjab is finding it hard to meet its afforestation target due to paucity of forestland. So much so that the state Forest Department was now planting saplings on common …
Calcutta, April 30: The Bengal government’s failure to acquire land for development projects came under the glare today at a meeting between National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) chairman A.K. Upadhyay and chief secretary Samar Ghosh. Upadhyay, who is also a secretary in the ministry of road transport and highways, …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as sewerage and drainage projects of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar planned under the Integrated Sanitation Improvement Programme, are scheduled to be completed in two years, the work is very sluggish. Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik reviewed the progress of the externally- aided projects at a high-level meeting here recently. …
In what belies the popular notion of a depressed investment environment in the country, the government’s spending on central sector projects commissioned in the first half of the previous financial year had risen exponentially, according to data obtained from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). In the central …
GUWAHATI: Pertinent development project proposals came up for discussion at the crucial sixth meeting of the State Board for Wildlife, Assam (SBWL) held in Guwahati. In this meeting, the Board was apprised of all the initiatives taken by the Assam Government for improving wildlife protection in the State. The Board …
