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New Delhi: Highways minister Kamal Nath has warned developers of road projects where construction is behind schedule that if they fail to achieve the desired target, NHAI might declare them
THE government will frame the bidding norms for mega highway projects to ensure participation by big highway developers such as L&T;, Reliance Infrastructure, GMR and GVK. It has decided to award mega road projects involving an investment of about Rs 5,000 crore following a suggestion by foreign road developers. Road …
In a prelude to creating a national expressways authority on the lines of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has already set a time table of works that the agency would implement. In a report drafted by the ministry, the minister has …
NOT impressed by the ambitious plans announced by road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath, the Planning Commission has advised the ministry to fix a
The first report committee on public undertakings has flayed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) over irregularities in the execution of the traffic intensive Delhi-Gurgaon highway claiming that it made certain exceptions to the usual approach to projects in order to benefit the private concessionaire. The committee has in …
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has identified 11 stretches in 12 states in the country for setting up high-speed six- to eight-lane expressways in the country in the first phase of its plan. The stretches so far identified add up to a total length of 3,530 km and …
In its first meeting on Monday, the newly-constituted empowered group of ministers (EGoM) for the roads sector will take stock of the finances available and also discuss ways to meet the funding requirement of National Highways Authority of India, estimated at estimated at Rs 47,736 crore, for 2010-11. NHAI has …
New Delhi: After removing most major irritants from the highway bidding process, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) expects a major push in the receipt of bids and award of contracts from this week. Road, transport and highways minister Kamal Nath told TOI on Monday that the ministry wanted …
New Delhi: The government has drawn up an ambitious target to lay 18,637km network of brand new expressways by 2022. These high-speed, access controlled roads will be of the four-lane and six-lane variety with 3,530 km to come up in the next three years. The highways ministry is ready with …
New Delhi: To attract global infrastructure majors in the highway projects, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will soon float six ultra mega projects, each of 600 km or more. The each $1 billion project will be on offer in one and-a-half months, according to road, transport and highways minister …
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday said that meeting the deadline to award 12,000 km highway projects by March 2010 will be delayed by at least three more months. Road, transport and highways minister Kamal Nath said this singling out conflict of interest (crossholding in bid competitors) and other irritants …
In a fresh attempt to cut down delays in implementation of National Highway Projects, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to appoint Executive Directors (EDs) at Guwahati, besides seven other zones all over the country, Union Ministry of Road Transport and National Highway, Kamal Nath announced here …
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is setting up a regional office in Ranch soon to ensure timely completion of various projects worth Rs 3,000 crore in Jharkhand, considered laggard in reaping the benefits of centrally-sponsored road revamp schemes. With as many as 12 national highways passing through the state …
Against Target Of 135 Schemes, Only 17 Cleared Since Jan Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN New Delhi: This could be an indicator of how the ambitious highway development programme has been a nonstarter in UPA-2. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has awarded only 17 projects for 1,574 km since …
The ball has started rolling, finally. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) today signed a contract with a consortium of IL&FS; Transportation Networks Limited (ITNL) and Punj Lloyd for the proposed four-laning project of Ranchi-Hazaribagh stretch of NH-33, the state
The project of countrywide piped gas is UPA's first Big Idea Under flak for its handling of the kg Basin gas controversy and its inability to get a fix on petrol prices through deregulation, the much-maligned petroleum and natural gas ministry now hopes to earn rookie points from the public …
To tide over delays in highway work on acquired stretches, the Government has decided that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will have to vest back all unused land to the original owner if highway building does not start in five years. Moreover, the land-owner will not have to …
