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Chandy seeks landowners' cooperation KOCHI: The State government will give Rs.25 crore of the estimated Rs.78 crore for acquiring land for widening the Padma-Pulleppady-Thammanam-NH Bypass road into a four-lane one. This was decided at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy here on Sunday. The road will be crucial …
New Delhi Private road developers have asked the government to streamline the functioning of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the nodal agency for award of highway building contracts, to ensure timely implementation of projects. They have asked the road transport and highways ministry to appoint separate NHAI members to …
House committee, forest and power departments hold back permissions, delaying the 800 crore PM-gifted project PANJIM: A Rs 800 crore national highway (NH) widening project, gifted to Goa by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2007, has gone off course. The four-laning of the Panjim-Anmod national highway 4A has hit a …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week asked road transport and highways minister CP Joshi to expedite award of highway projects to achieve the 20-km-a-day road construction target as soon as possible. However, Joshi is reported to have said the target would be met only by 2014. In an interview with …
With the Prime Minister stressing on the importance of improving connectivity in extremist-affected areas, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has drawn out a plan to invest Rs 10,000 crore on building four-lane highways in J&K.; Seen as a medium for development and antidote to rising anti-national activities, four …
New Delhi Road minister CP Joshi said on Thursday that the target of building 20 km national highways a day would become a reality only by 2014. Joshi disclosed this a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the road ministry to remove all bottlenecks to achieve that goal. The …
To bridge the infrastructure deficit in both quality and quantity, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the road transport and highways ministry and NHAI to expedite the awarding of projects. The PM said at a review meeting that he expected the NHAI and ministry to exceed its target of awarding …
New Delhi Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet road transport and highway minister CP Joshi on Wednesday as the economist turned head-of-state makes a first-hand assessment of the pace of the nation's infrastructure development. After assuming charge of the ministry in January this year, Joshi had said his main focus …
COIMBATORE: Public consultation meetings will be held at Udumalpet and Pollachi on June 4 to get feedback on the proposed four-lane work on National Highway 209 from Dindigul to Coimbatore. Project Director of National Highways Authority of India-Coimbatore P. Manivannan told The Hindu on Friday that the meeting would be …
New Delhi The Planning Commission has decided to appoint consultants to ensure that draft concession agreements on national highway projects are technically sound. The commission wants to be confident that the technical specifications of the projects are as tight as possible so as to prevent time and cost overruns, which …
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation plans to demolish Ernakulam North overbridge soon KOCHI: The State Government's delay in sanctioning funds and in approving the scheme mooted by the Corporation of Kochi to hasten land acquisition, is stifling four-laning of two crucial road corridors in Kochi
JAIPUR: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued notices to property owners on National Highway 8 (Jaipur- Ajmer) for encroaching the national highway land. An official at NHAI said, "We are identifying the properties which are being illegally constructed on NH-8 land. Till date around 200 such properties …
It is being executed through Special Purpose Vehicle. It would be completed within 24 months from the date of commencement. No toll will be collected on this road CHENNAI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued work orders for the commencement of the Ennore-Manali Road Improvement Project (EMRIP). …
In a bid to introduce greater transparency in the road sector, the transport ministry on Tuesday said it has fixed the monthly monitorable targets for road building and will bid out all projects beginning August through the e-tendering process.
Meticulous C P Joshi is triggering comparisons with his predecessor, Kamal Nath, a man of the world. Early morning last Friday, in a post timed at 7.44 am, one Ramesh Jain wrote a rant against overloading. It was the usual anguish many of us feel on seeing overloaded trucks on …
Greater Noida: The widening of GT Road NH-91, a project of six-lane highway from Ghaziabad to Aligarh via Bulandshahr, will cost the felling of shady trees planted on the both sides of the road at the time of Emperor Sher Shah Suri. About 19,000 trees will be cut for the …
