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Faced with stiff opposition towards highway widening and BOT-based road development, an all-party meeting on Tuesday decided to temporarily discontinue land acquisition for the four-laning of the national highway in Kerala. The meeting, chaired by Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan, pleaded with the Centre that four-laning of NH in Kerala …
Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) asked Public Works Department to replant three times the wide tracts of mangroves that would be cut for national highway expansion in near future. "Public Works Department, which will undertake the road expansion, will have to make sure that the mangroves are replanted before …
With around one lakh trees axed to widen the NH-1 in the state and the Forest Department not getting land to plant saplings, the state may be heading for a major ecological crisis. According to documents available with The Tribune, if the Forest Department does not take action, chances are …
The process of land acquisition between Asanboni in Seraikela-Kharsawan and Galudih in East Singhbhum for the proposed four-laning of NH-33 will begin soon. Road construction department secretary N.N. Sinha said the survey for project, covering a stretch of 110km (Asanboni to Galudih), which had begun three months ago, had been …
Environment Minister lashes out at NHAI for its poor re-forestation record New Delhi: The tussle between ministries of surface transport and environment over environmental clearances continues unabated, with environment minister Jairam Ramesh levelling serious charges against Kamal Nath. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Ramesh hit out at National Highways Authority …
Even after Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath complained to the Prime Minister over the progress of highways being stalled by the Environment Ministry, Jairam Ramesh seems in no mood to relent. In a letter to Nath, Ramesh has pointed out that the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) …
Says He Will Not Allow Chhindwara Highway To Cut Through Tiger Reserve BLAMED by his Cabinet colleagues, particularly surface transport minister Kamal Nath, of stalling projects, environment minister Jairam Ramesh hit back saying he would further increase the rejection rate of projects.
Mihir Mishra / New Delhi March 31, 2010, 1:23 IST The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is in its final stages of acquiring 80 per cent of the land required for Work Plan I. It requires 30,000 hectares. Work Plan I is the list of projects to be awarded …
The B K Chaturvedi committee, set up by the Prime Minister to resolve issues in the roads sector, has called for a bucket-based approach to resolve disputes plaguing the sector. In its second round of recommendations to the government, the committee has suggested three buckets for the size of claims …
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to bypass states that are slow on acquiring land for national highway projects. Barring Goa, none of the states that lag behind in land acquisition are governed by the Congress.
On february 15, the Union road transport minister, Kamal Nath, proposed an alternative route to avoid widening the national highway (NH) passing through the Pench tiger reserve. His ministry had till now been pushing for widening the road stretch on NH 7, connecting Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh with Nagpur in …
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) awarded 36 projects for a total length of 3,166 km till February 2010. According to a statement in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday by minister of state for road transport and highways R P N Singh, till December 2009 the government awarded 17 …
Around 200 objections have been received against the proposed land acquisition for the four-laning of North Goa stretch of NH 4A connecting Panjim to Belgaum. After the notification was published in the newspapers, 21 days were given to the people likely to be affected in view of the acquisition of …
Roads and transport minister Kamal Nath issued an ultimatum to state public works departments (PWD) today, declaring that states must facilitate land acquisition for road construction and utilise previously appropriated funds, otherwise delayed projects would be foreclosed while new ones would become increasingly difficult to procure. Following a meeting with …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is conducting a feasibility study on upgradation of the six-km-long four-lane bridge over Narmada river into six lanes. The bridge falls on the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and is known for frequent traffic jams. The corridor, leading to …
On december 28¤ people from 25 villages of Supaul district in north Bihar forced construction workers making a bundh on the Kosi river to abandon work. The temporary bundh will divert the river to allow the construction of a bridge. People are agitated because the project will impede the river’s …
RASHME SEHGAL Is the fate of one more tiger reserve in jeopardy? The National Highways Authority of India's (NHAI) decision to slice the Pench tiger reserve in two by building a fourlane highway (N.H. 7) through it could well mean the death knell for the 30 tigers living in this …
The Government is all set to give a new fillip to the road transport and highways sector in the Union Budget 2010-11. It is planning to increase allocation of NHAI for National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) by 20-25 per cent and give special emphasis on projects related to road safety, …
