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 …
Ranchi, Sept. 19: Government officials and a representative of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Ranchi, will attend a meeting in New Delhi tomorrow to take the first step in securing green clearances for the Mahulia-Baharagora-Kharagpur road, over six months after an agency was picked to execute the widening project. …
New Delhi: This time around, there will be no escape for the Gurgaon expressway contractor if it fails to fulfill conditions laid down in the MoU, which was signed with NHAI and lenders on Tuesday. The agreement spells out the timeframe and specifies conditions such as permission from agencies like …
JAMMU, Sep 17: As rains continue to lash the region, 300 kilometer long Jammu Srinagar National Highway remain closed due to landslides and sliding stones in Ramban, today. Another vital road link to valley Dhar Road was also blocked due to landslides at Darsoo area of Udhampur district. Due to …
6.5 kms Chhatergalla tunnel to reduce 20 km distance JAMMU: After a long wait of nearly 30 years, the people from Doda and Kathua districts will have an all weather double lane road as Border Roads Organisation (GREF) has given the completion target of 2017 of this prestigious Rs 600 …
With more than 400 road and National Highways projects stuck for want of environment, forest and wildlife clearances, the Centre is planning for a single window to remove the bottlenecks. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has drafted a proposal about “need to have a streamlined mechanism for …
New Delhi: Even after Delhi high court gave two weeks to NHAI and Gurgaon expressway contractor to ink an outof-court settlement, both parties have failed to come to an agreement. Sources said the consortium of banks, which financed the project and face the prospect of losing their investment, would go …
All weather connectivity to Ladakh The Government today approved construction of a tunnel at Z-Morh in Jammu & Kashmir at a cost of Rs 2,717 crore to provide all weather connectivity between Srinagar and Leh. The decision to give nod to 6.5 km long tunnel was taken by the Cabinet …
New Delhi Government is targeting awarding road construction projects of 4,000 km length in the current fiscal through the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode. Of this, bids for road projects of 2,650 km length has been invited by ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH). The remaining will be …
New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India has drawn CAG’s flak for the potential loss of Rs 874 crore on account of delays in completion of projects for connecting major ports through highways. The authority also incurred a revenue loss of over Rs 127 crore on account of delay …
New Delhi: As 39 highway projects are awaiting financial closure and 15-17 are witnessing time-overruns, the highways ministry officials will brainstorm with developers, bankers, financial institutions and finance ministry officials over the next two days to identify the reasons behind funding problems and ways to solve them. Leading highway developers …
In a first, the road transport ministry is firming up plans to upgrade around 10,000 km of national highways across the country in two years. The upgrade will be done under road maintenance programme funded by the government through Gross Budgetary Support. The upgrade or recarpeting of the roads will …
Growing conflicts over development in South America have come to a head in Bolivia, where indigenous groups are resisting a highway project that would slice through a national park. How Bolivia resolves this showdown could point the way for other regions seeking to balance economic growth and the environment. Carmelo …
Allege the government chose the longest route to benefit politicians, traders; demand inquiry Jupinderjit Singh Sangrur: The four-laning project of the Zirakpur-Bathinda highway has run into a controversy with farmers of Sangrur seeking a CBI inquiry into the selection of the route. They allege that the proposed route has been …
Lucknow Land acquisition hurdles have claimed yet another road project in Uttar Pradesh. The R1100-crore Agra Inner Ring Road project, which was given to Jaypee Infratech three years ago, has been shelved by the Akhilesh Yadav government because the land-for-development model for the plan was not working out. In a …
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, present this two hundred and thirtieth report on steps taken by various sectors of the Indian economy to control pollution. The Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests decided to review measures taken and being taken by …
Five senior ministers— Kamal Nath, Veerappa Moily, CP Joshi, Anand Sharma and Ajit Singh—opposed the bill Sensing differences within Cabinet over the land acquisition bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh referred it to a group of ministers on Tuesday. “The bill has far reaching implications and need more discussion,” the prime …
Commerce Minister Anand Sharma led the opposition to the controversial Land Acquisition Bill piloted by Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh in the Cabinet today citing an adverse effect on the investment climate, forcing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to defer the issue to a Group of Ministers (GoM). Sharma did not …
Raising concern over the dismal progress in building roads, the Prime Minister’s Office has asked the Ministry of Road Transport for a “work plan” to achieve the national highways target promised by the Prime Minister. “The targets have been made public by the PM and fully owned by the ministry. …
JAMMU, Aug 22: A villager was today washed away in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Rajouri district while traffic on 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway was resumed today after remaining suspended for more than 6 hours due to landslides triggered by heavy rains. 50-year-old Anwar Hussain was swept away …
With many highway projects finding it difficult to reach financial closure, the government is seeking a review of guidelines for lending to such projects. The finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India are considering a proposal under which banks could treat escrow accounts as collateral for projects where annuities …
