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. …
The government is set to ask private developers building national highways under the public private partnership (PPP) mode to install weigh bridges at every entry and exit point of highways. To check the wear and tear of highways, the government is planning to amend the model concession agreement for PPP …
Hazaribagh, April 10: The desiltation work at Hazaribagh lake has come to a halt with the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) officials asking the district officials to immediately clear the mud, which has accumulated as a result of digging a small portion of the water body. The NTPC had come …
The empowered group of ministers (E-GoM) for roads is expected to finalise a mechanism for resolving disputes between developers and the National Highways Authority of India that have locked up investments to the tune of Rs 11,000 crore. In its meeting on Friday, the E-GoM will likely approve the financing …
Amidst concerns hovering around the infrastructure space, the road sector is showing some signs of revival, say experts. Invitation of bids for new road projects by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has again gained momentum since December, after a lull from July to November 2010. A host of …
Mumbai Amidst concerns hovering around the infrastructure space, the road sector is showing some signs of revival, say experts. Invitation of bids for new road projects by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has again gained momentum since December, after a lull from July to November 2010. A host …
The ministry of road transport and highways, which has been successful in bringing land acquisition to levels needed to achieve 20-km-a-day target of road building, is, however, struggling to bring the acquired land under its possession and insulate itself from paying huge compensations to developers. While, on paper, the ministry …
Highway developers can now apply to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to get pre-qualified for projects that will be bid during a year. The NHAI has invited applications for annual pre-qualification (RFAQ) from companies. They can apply for pre-qualification as a single entity or as a consortium. The …
Guwahati, March 7: To ensure that both development and wildlife blend harmoniously, WWF India has suggested a series of mitigative measures to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) so that wildlife in the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape which bisects Lumding reserve forest is not drastically affected by the development of …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government will speed up land acquisition to expedite national highway (NH) projects. Taking stock at a review meeting here, Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik directed the Revenue Department to accelerate land acquisition and hand over the lands to the National Highway Authorities of India (NHAI). Particularly, the …
Almost 10 years after work started on the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) project, one of the biggest highway networks in the country, the 754-km stretch on Delhi-Kolkata road is almost complete, except for a railway overbridge (ROB) at Tundla in Firozabad, which would be ready in March.
To give the boost to proposed and ongoing infrastructure projects in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the state government has demanded the financial assistance of Rs20,000 crore from the central government. In a brief meeting with chief minister Prithviraj Chavan at Raj Bhawan on Thursday, prime minister Manmohan Singh has suggested …
Hazaribagh: Four-laning of Ranchi-Patna stretch of NH-33 has started affecting the green cover of the district. In the last 10 days, about 600 to 700 sal trees were felled on both sides of an 8km stretch of NH-33 passing through the famous Hazaribagh wildlife sanctuary in Padma. The felling of …
THE WORLD Bank has approved a $45 million technical assistance loan for the NHAI to help improve its operational efficiency. The assistance will finance actions to strengthen the institutional capacity of NHAI to efficiently manage and operate its growing programme, a bank statement said. The loan from the International Bank …
The Zirakpur-Parwanoo section of National Highway-22 is scheduled to be opened to traffic by January 2011, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has claimed. In the status report filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday, Anil Dahiya, Project Director, NHAI, said there had been a 87.5 …
New Delhi: The drive to Taj Mahal through NH 2 will become faster and nearly signalfree in the next three years. NHAI plans to build flyovers or underpasses at all traffic intersections on the route, including one at Ashram Chowk in the capital, and a major private developer will start …
Road transport and highways ministry has put the plan to create a separate authority for building expressways on the back burner fearing opposition from state governments on the issue of acquisition of land and its commercial exploitation. Road minister Kamal Nath, who is keen on setting up the new body …
We need to radically overhaul the existing, abused system of selecting concessionaires to build roads and the best way forward is to adopt bidding for present value of revenue, says Srivatsa Krishna INDIA, advised prudently by Dot Econ, one of the world
Mihir Mishra / New Delhi September 22, 2010, 1:42 IST Following protests over the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has dropped its plan to allow developers to use land along expressways for commercial purposes instead of seeking viability-gap funding (VGF). The government had …
