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. …
Irregular supply of raw material, financial crunch, delayed clearances key hurdles Chandigarh: When the proposal to six-lane the highly congested stretch of the National Highway No. 1 between Panipat and Jalandhar was cleared in May 2008, it raised hopes of high speed road travel between the country’s Capital and the …
BHUBANESWAR: With the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) neglecting its roads within the State, the Government on Tuesday urged the Centre for up-gradation, maintenance and modernisation of the highways. The issue was raised at a meeting attended by Union Secretary for Road Transport and Highways AK Upadhyaya here. The …
GMR Infrastructure is close to winning a Rs 1,500-crore highway project in Andhra Pradesh. The company, based in this city, is bidding aggressively for this 145-km project connecting Hyderabad with Sangareddy, a district headquarters to the northwest, on the route to Mumbai. According to senior officials of the National Highways …
AHMEDABAD: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to widen the Ahmedabad-Rajkot and Bamanbore-Samakhiyali stretches of the national highway grid. NHAI has invited tenders for a technical report to make the highways six lanes wide. Officials in NHAI said that the stretch already has four lanes and NHAI …
As per the instructions given by the state government, the Kochi Corporation will soon prepare a bylaw for parking in the city. The Town Planning Committee has already started the preliminary works for the preparation of the bylaw. “The state government has approved the Automobile Parking Policy for all the …
Looking to give a push to infrastructure development in the country the central government has approved building over 1,000 kilometres of expressways under its flagship road building programme NHDP at an investment of Rs 16,680 crore. The projects include the 400 km long Vadodara-Mumbai, the 66 km long Delhi-Meerut, 334 …
The government today said it has approved building over 1,000 kilometre of expressways under its flagship road building programme NHDP, entailing an investment of Rs 16,680 crore. The projects include 400 km long Vadodara-Mumbai, 66 km long Delhi-Meerut, 334 km long Bangalore-Chennai, and 277 km Kolkata-Dhanbad expressways. “The construction of …
Alarm bells have started ringing in the government over recent trend of highway builders quoting huge premiums to bag contracts. Road transport and highways minister CP Joshi has directed his officials to do a risk analysis of such bids and devise a mechanism to secure the completion of projects. Essentially, …
New Delhi: UPA-2’s target to build 7,000km of roads a year may be a reality soon, as the next two years are likely to record 20,000km of road construction, given the projects awarded so far. Construction is in progress on 16,000km, and the ministry has to award 11,050km in the …
The tiger population is facing a growing threat from heavy traffic with the ministry of surface transport demanding environmental clearances for 17 highways across tiger reserves from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). The Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand is facing a massive problem as over 50,000 vehicles ply …
SHILLONG: In what can be termed as a major sigh of relief for the State Government, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has asserted that the agency can neither cancel the Umiam-Jorabat four-laning project nor it can change the alignment of the project. A senior NHAI official involved with …
SHILLONG: The decision of the state government to go ahead with the construction of the four lane from the existing road at Umsning has called for both applause and criticism from the local residents of Umsning. The supporters of the government’s decision which include the local residents, land owners from …
Umsning (Ri Bhoi district), Oct. 11: Amid the dust and fading simmering heat that surround this hamlet, two words, “existing” and “bypass,” dominate the conversations against the backdrop of a deep conflict of ideas. The two words relate to the four-laning of National Highway 40 along the Umsning sector in …
KOLKATA, 27 SEPT: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has proposed offering better compensation package for landlosers to ensure that it gets the land needed for widening NH-34 that connects Kolkata and north Bengal. Senior officials at Writers’ Buildings said officials of NHAI recently visited Kolkata and held meetings …
The stalled infrastructure projects in Mumbai and around, according to a PIL before the Bombay High Court, are a result of the lack of a reserved place for dumping construction waste. The future of the construction business within the limits of Mumbai and its neighbouring municipal corporations is at risk, …
New Delhi: The proposed land acquisition policy is expected to push up costs for the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) as the compensation it gives may rise significantly. At present, the share of land acquisition is almost 12% of a total project cost, but after the new legislation this …
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has planned to construct 1,000 km of expressways on the BOT (toll; build-operate-transfer) model. “We have started preparing the alignment and also acquiring land for the Vadodara-Mumbai section,” said a senior NHAI official, who did not want to be identified. The other three …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday called for complete transparency in awarding highway projects to eliminate the possibility of favouritism or crony capitalism. Manmohan Singh“It is necessary to demonstrate that the award, construction and operation of these (highways) projects is based on a fair and transparent approach which eliminates any …
Nurpur Bedi (Ropar): The lower Shivaliks are all set to disappear. With the illegal mining mafia leaving no stone unturned (literally!) to raze the hillocks here for sand and gravel and the Ropar administration turning a blind eye to this plundering of nature, it may be just months before this …
New Delhi: The ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has asked the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to award 3,000 km of roads on a cash contract basis during the current fiscal year to step up road construction. This would mean that projects worth Rs 7,500 crore-Rs 8,000 …
