Report by the District Magistrate, Agra in EA No. 34 of 2024 IN OA No. 338 of 2023 (Ravendra Singh Vs. NHAI & Ors.) dated January 21, 2025. The compliance report was in response to the NGT order of May 22, 2023 regarding the inaction of the authorities in cleaning …
Green cover and water bodies almost equal to a quarter (23%) of Delhi's area have been lost to development works and rapid urbanization in the National Capital Region in just the past 13 years. The first comparative satellite-based study of change in land use in NCR has shown that between …
Also exempts mining of soil up to 2 hectares for laying foundation from green NoC The Cabinet has cleared a proposal that allows expansion of highways up to 100 km without environmental clearance, a move seen speeding up revival of a sector that is key to higher economic growth. Based …
Expansion Of Highway Stretches Up To 100km Now Easier In a major relief to highway widening projects, the Cabinet on Thursday allowed exemption of environmental clearance requirement for stretches up to 100 km in length. Earlier, this was for stretches up to 30 km, as a result of which most …
In a major relief to highway widening projects, the Cabinet on Thursday allowed exemption of environmental clearance requirement for stretches up to 100 km in length. Earlier, this was for stretches up to 30 km, as a result of which most expansion projects required green nod from the environment ministry. …
Chairing a high level meeting on development issues at SKICC here, prime minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh announced the agreement of union government for granting Rs. 710 crores to the State to meet the expenditure on account of land acquisition under PMGSY. “Good news is this that a note has already …
The Public Works Department (PWD) is gearing up to initiate work on the four-laning of two important national highways allotted to it by the Union Ministry for Road Transport and Highways. These are Amritsar-Bathinda national highway via Verka-Tarn Taran-Mudki-Kotkapura-Baja Khanna-Jida and Jalandhar-Moga-Barnala-Khanuri (Sangrur). "We have completed most of the paper …
Road Fund Board to take loans for work A Rs.10,000-crore project for the development of 22 roads, including the hill highway, in the State to overcome traffic problems was cleared by the Cabinet on Wednesday. Briefing mediapersons after the Cabinet, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said the Kerala Road Fund Board …
Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has sanctioned Rs 130.74 crore towards compensation to be paid to the landowners in West Kameng, East Kameng and Papum Pare districts of Arunachal Pradesh who would be affected by the construction of the Nechipu–Hoj stretch of Trans–Arunachal Highway (TAH). Chief Minister …
The Madras High Court bench here ordered notice to the special district revenue officer (DRO) for land acquisition, Pudukottai, on a batch of four writ petitions filed by farmers from Kumaramangalam village, opposing the DRO’s proceedings to acquire their lands for laying a national highway. In their writ petitions, the …
The Asian Development Bank will provide US$ 198 million in loans for Bangladesh to help upgrade a critical regional highway and two land ports to boost connectivity and trade across South Asia. In this regard, the government and ADB on Wednesday signed a loan agreement. Economic Relations Division secretary Md …
GURGAON: Acting on a complaint filed by the residents of National Media Centre, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday served notice to DLF, IL&FS; and HUDA for cutting trees on NH-8. The NGT has sought response to the notice before the next hearing by a vacation bench on Monday. …
The state expert appraisal committee (SEAC) of the environment ministry has recommended a proposed convention centre-cum-commercial complex in BKC for clearance. The complex will be spread across 75,000 square metres and will accommodate 25,000 people. SEAC, which screens and and decides whether to recommend to the state environment impact assessment …
Chandigarh, May 27: The delay in completing the six-laning of the 291-km Panipat-Jalandhar highway project has cost the concessionaire and its director dear. Taking up the issue, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed the concessionaire to pay a penalty of Rs 60 crore for the delay. The director …
In a major step towards removing hurdles to implementing national highway projects, the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) today relaxed forest clearance norms for these projects. It decided to give “special exemptions” on forestry clearances. For linear projects, it said it would de-link the grant of environment clearances from forest …
The state government has now been empowered by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to give environment clearance to small, 'B' category projects, which include hydroelectric projects up to 50 MW. Earlier, the clearance had to be obtained from the Centre, which delayed the start of projects. Besides …
The drastic fall in private investment in road and highway projects has prompted Parliament’s standing committee on transport to suggest a review of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model – touted by many senior government officials as the only way to bring in money and developing infrastructure in India. In …
A two–day workshop on World Bank aided Assam State Roads Project drew to a close at NEDFI House recently. The road experts and engineers were one in their opinion that the ambitious project would bring about a total transformation in the surface communication in the State. The road experts dwelt …
Delay in completion of port road connectivity (PRC) projects and loss of toll revenue had resulted in a loss of around Rs 873.85 crore to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. The CAG observed this while reviewing the operations of special …
The government approved two highway extension projects in Rajasthan involving investments of R 713 crore with assistance from the World Bank. ‘‘Government has approved a proposal for rehabilitation and upgrading of two stretches of National Highways in Rajasthan under Phase I of National Highway Interconnectivity Improvement Projects (NHIIP) with World …
Slackened progress in road building is mainly on account of various issues including delays in environment and forest clearance and land acquisition, Parliament was informed today. “The progress of construction of National Highways has been slow due to several problems such as land acquisition, shifting of utilities, environmental and forest …
