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Anirban Chowdhury / New Delhi March 4, 2009, 0:24 IST Companies find the terms in the bidding documents for state projects much more attractive. National highway projects under the public-private partnership (PPP) scheme have found few takers, but state highway projects under the same route are getting record response in …
AHMEDABAD: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has belted out 543-km four lane bonanza for Gujarat. These will mainly connect port towns and major cities of state with the rest of the country. Four-laning will be carried out on NH-6,59,8A and 8D. Besides this, special radial roads for both Surat …
THE government has decided to set up an expert panel to monitor World Bank funded road sector projects implemented by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). The proposed committee will have independent professionals from finance, legal and technical streams. The move comes after World Bank, in an audit report, …
THE government on Wednesday approved a Rs 1,205.52-crore highway project for fourlaning of national highway (NH-7) linking Madhya Pradesh with Maharastra. The 95.06 kilometre stretch will be developed by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) under the public-private partnership model.
THE steel ministry has asked National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to expand the road network in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal keeping in mind the massive growth of steel production in these states by 2011-12. It estimates that the traffic load on the highways will jump from 125 …
New Delhi: While the Left-led Kerala Government had to be coaxed and convinced by the Centre to allow Build Operate Transfer (BOT) toll based highway projects in the state, the long pending road upgradation exercise in the state is yet to take off. Economic slowdown has badly struck the upgradation …
Move Aimed At Attracting Pvt Players Subhash Narayan & Nirbhay Kumar NATIONAL Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the government-run agency responsible for development of highways in the country, plans to change the revenue-sharing model in favour of private developers to attract investments. It may allow a concessionaire to recover its …
Court committee stops road expansion in sanctuary THE Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee (cec) has halted a road expansion project on the periphery of the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. The National Highway Authority of India (nhai) had started cutting trees in the sanctuary for upgrading the existing …
PNS | New Delhi Following repeated complaints by World Bank and Asian Development Bank over serious delays in highway projects funded by these international agencies, Minister for Road Transport and Highways TR Baalu has pulled up National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and asked them to set monthly targets for …
RS 6K CRORE PLAN Mumbai: In a major infrastructure move within the state, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Maharashtra government have thrown open the whopping Rs 6,000-crore National and State Highway Development and Maintenance Programme to the private sector. A major part of the project is the …
New Delhi: With the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) set to finalize the alignment of a 61 km-long expressway next month, the travel time between Delhi and Meerut may be reduced to approximately 45 minutes from the usual two hours once the project is completed. There is also some …
GMR, Tata Realty, L&T; Among Bidders; Total Cost Of Projects Under Phase-III and V To Be Over Rs 70,000 Crore LOWER interest rates and cheaper raw materials are breathing fresh life into about 60 highway projects worth Rs 70,000 crore that were lying in limbo for several months because of …
A majority of the 17 road works awarded under the public-private partnership (PPP) scheme in the first phase of National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) were delayed, according to a recent report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Of these projects, only five were completed in time, while there …
No BOT Venture Awarded In 6 Months, Deadlines Extended Has economic meltdown hit the infrastructure sector in the country? Seems likely since in the last six months, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has failed to award a single BOT project. Bidding deadlines for all major projects, including Kundli- …
1,464 km of highways in the State would be developed TIRUCHI: An outlay of Rs. 9,880 crore is expected to be invested under the third phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T. R. Baalu said. Speaking after inaugurating the Padalur-Samayapuram …
With the completion of the Ambala Zirakpur four-laning project, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is all set to formally inaugurate the project on December 10. Union Minister for Shipping, Roads, Transport and Highway T R Baalu will throw open the project for which a toll plaza has been …
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) risks losing $300 million of the $620 million World Bank loan for the $933 million Lucknow-Muzaffarpur National Highway Project (LMNHP), if work on the project is not expedited and safety concerns not addressed within a short period of time. World Bank acting country …
