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. …
Finally, pipe-laying work for the much-awaited Alappuzha Drinking Water Project will begin in the municipal jurisdiction on Friday. The project, which saw the High Court on Wednesday summoning the top-brass of the Kerala Water Authority to the court to enquire upon the delay in completion, at last got the nod …
With the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, on Wednesday not approving the procedural relaxations for floating of tenders for roads and highways, the Road Transport and Highways (RTH) Ministry’s target of awarding projects for 7,300 km for the current financial year is unlikely to …
The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to submit an undertaking that it would abide by the recommendations of the expert panel set up by the Lake Development Authority on the protection of five lakes in the City. The Environment Support Group had …
Committee reviews progress of work The Kerala Water Authority informed an Assembly Committee here on Tuesday that the Alappuzha Drinking Water Project, envisaged to provide drinking water to Alappuzha municipality and eight surrounding panchayats, would be ready for commissioning by 2013. The Assembly Committee, led by Chairman V.S. Sunil Kumar, …
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure approved the implementation four-laning of Yamunanaga-Panchkula section on National Highway-73 in Haryana, on Thursday. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has already floated an e-tender for the four-laning of the 104 kilometer NH from Yamunanaga to Panchkula. With the approval of the Cabinet Committee, …
While the inauguration of the Pinjore- Parwanoo bypass road has been delayed due to safety reasons, the Himachal Pradesh government has been hit by another problem - the inability to locate a site for a excise and taxation toll barrier on the proposed road stretch. The Himachal excise and taxation …
Contiguous availability for road development may be a problem still. Amidst all the noise of land acquisitions delaying highway projects, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is inching closer to acquiring a record 10,000-12,000 hectares in the current fiscal. This is the largest ever land acquisition in a year …
Highways authority to discard public-private partnership model for EPC contract. The National Highways Authority of India plans to award construction orders worth up to . 15,000 crore in the next fiscal, deviating from its strategy of awarding projects through the public-private partnership route. The authority will award engineering, procurement and …
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is studying the feasibility of widening the 268 km stretch of NH 209 (Dindigul to Coimbatore and Coimbatore to Karnataka border via Annur) into a four-lane road. The detailed project report is likely to be prepared by March next. An official of NHAI …
National Highways Authority of India organises public hearing on realignment Farmers from villages in the outskirts of the City have opposed the proposed move to build the bypass road, to come up as part of the widening of the Tiruchi-Karur section of National Highway 67, cutting across fertile agricultural lands. …
Members of the Tamilaga Vivasayigal Sangham along with their family members staged a demonstration opposing the proposed move to acquire lands for laying a 60-km bypass road from Kangeyampalayam to Mettupalayam. The demonstrators led by the Sangham President M.R. Sivasamy pointed out that instead a bypass road in a shorter …
The State government, which has already borrowed about $650 million from external sources to upgrade some of the major roads and State highways, recently made additional borrowings of $15 million to implement road works of 3,411 km in the State. The roads, the upgrading of which was taken up under …
The Tiruchi Corporation would adopt trenchless technology to lay pumping mains of the on-going Drinking Water Supply Augmentation Scheme in critical junctions and crossings at 11 places in the city. The drinking water scheme is being executed at an estimated cost of Rs.221.42 crore with financial assistance from the Japan …
SHILLONG: The State Government may have decided to construct the four-lane road along the existing stretch of the highway at Umsning, but a cross-section of opinion makers feel that the four-lane road should be constructed along the Umsning Bypass. The Shillong Times spoke to a cross-section of people to seek …
SHILLONG: The rift between the Ri-Bhoi Students’ Union (RBSU) and other NGOs under the banner of Joint Action Committee (JAC) seems to have intensified after the RBSU reiterated that the Government should construct the four-lane highway from the existing Umsning stretch. In a statement issued to media houses here on …
SHILLONG: If the utterances of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma is taken for granted, the Jorabat-Umiam four-lane road project and the Shillong by-pass from Umiam to Mawryngkneng is expected to be completed by 2013. These two projects, particularly the Shillong by-pass was way behind the scheduled period of completion due to …
Shillong, Nov. 14: The Meghalaya government has decided to speed up two major pending projects, four-laning of a stretch of road from Umiam to Jorabat in Ri Bhoi district and the Shillong bypass after a meeting with the officials of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) today. Speaking to reporters …
82-km Kannur-Vengalam stretch to be developed into four lanes Renewed efforts will be taken to accelerate the steps for acquiring land for widening the Kannur-Vengalam reach of the National Highway 17 (NH-17) to develop it into a four-lane highway. Public Works Minister V.K. Ebrahim Kunju will be holding a meeting …
In a place like the Nilgiris, natural calamities cannot be prevented but if sincere and concerted efforts are made their impact can be minimised. This was emphasised by D.V. Singh, Senior Scientist and V. Selvi, Scientist of the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute (CSWCRTI) while speaking …
New Delhi: To complete the already delayed north-south corridor, the highways ministry will now seek additional budgetary support of Rs 10,340 crore for two four-laning projects in Jammu and Kashmir. The National Highways Authority of India has already used more than the sanctioned budget support of Rs 26,599 crore in …
