Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Balwinder Kaur Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 19/03/2024. Balwinder Kaur, the applicant raised the grievance of risk of thousands of trees felling due to likelihood of land sliding. It was said that illegal mining is being carried out …
The Delhi government is finally beginning road resurfacing in the Capital. For the first time, the PWD will be using new techniques it had been experimenting with in the past. The re-carpeting process started on Tuesday on Ring Road, close to Hyatt Regency in South Delhi. The 293 lane-km of …
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 …
The World Bank today approved four loans worth $4.3 billion (about Rs 20,631 crore) to help India finance its infrastructure programmes and further strengthen the capital base of state-run banks. The approved loan includes a a budgetary support of $2 billion for capital infusion in select public sector banks to …
MUMBAI: Mumbai's infrastructure agencies have come under fire for focusing only on the capital intensive sea-link, iconic tower and metro rail projects and "ignoring the medium and short-term transportation infrastructure solutions''. TranSforM, a study conducted recently by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) recommends completion of a total of 3,462 …
The World Bank has agreed to provide a $3-billion loan for developing national highways. The assistance will be utilised for converting 6,372 km of one-lane highways into two-lane, of the total of 19,702-km single-lane highways.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Government might start awarding projects even if there is a single bidder for highway development on build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis. Sources in the ministry of road, transport and highways (North) said the modalities for this are yet to be worked out, which can …
The Himachal Government would take up the tunnel project to link Kullu with Jogindernagar, cutting short the distance between two key tourist resorts by 63 km, Chief Minister PK Dhumal on Tuesday said. Presiding over the centenary celebration of Government Senior Secondary School Bhutti in Lagh valley Kullu District, Dhumal, …
K.V. Prasad NEW DELHI: The Union Government has begun review of 70 strategically important roads along the Sino-Indian border. Their construction has been held up on account of delay in environmental clearance. Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh held a meeting with the Minister of State for …
Nirbhay Kumar & Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI THE government has decided to form an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) to fast-track highway development projects.
ANGUL: Coal transportation in Talcher coalfield area, which supplies coal to seven states, has been hampered due to lack of infrastructure facilities. Millions of tonnes of coal stocked at various colliery pit heads could not be evacuated due to poor and dilapidated roads, according to sources. The internal roads are …
The Ganga continues to be threatened by environmentally unsustainable development projects, of which the Ganga Expressway is the most recent example. But the campaign to save the Ganga is seemingly caught in recrimination and bad governance.
New Delhi: The Centre has prepared a plan to convert 6,376 km of single-lane national highways (NH) to twolanes involving an investment of over $3 billion (Rs 15,000 crore). The government is approaching the World Bank to finance this expansion, roads, transport and highways minister Kamal Nath said on Thursday. …
BHUBANESWAR: Three World Bank-assisted infrastructure projects worth over Rs 400 crore have remained a non-starter even after a year of awarding of contracts due to lack of cooperation from the Government. The World Bank sanctioned loan for widening and strengthening of three roads under the Orissa State Road Project. Tenders …
New Delhi: The government, keen to kickstart the stalled road programme, has drawn up plans to unroll an ambitious network of expressways to boost connectivity across key states over next few years. While the ministry of road, transport and highways (MoRTH) has envisaged constructing 15,600 km of national expressways network …
S. Annamalai To evolve a process for use of waste plastic to lay roads A Rs. 42 lakh project, to be undertaken between 2009, 2012 Cold process will be highly useful in laying roads in cold regions MADURAI : The Department of Science and Technology has sanctioned a
An illegal make-over of the ambitious Bengaluru Mysore Corridor leaves slumdwellers on the road and the Supreme Court toothless. FOURTEEN YEARS ago, 256 Dalit families from a village slum located just outside Bengaluru pitched tents and fashioned homes out of nothing. Come May 12, 2009 and not a single house …
The B K Chaturvedi committee appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to suggest measures to re-energise the roads sector has called for scrapping the controversial norm that limits the number of players that can be shortlisted for projects. And has recommended over-arching powers to the Ministry of Road Transport and …
