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 …
New Delhi Problems with land acquisition and environmental clearances have delayed 58 ongoing national highways projects, including 18 in Assam, seven in Jammu and Kashmir and five each in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, said the ministry of road transport and highways in response to a written question. The projects …
In a bid to provide much-needed impetus to the fund-starved highways sector, the road transport ministry is looking at increasing road projects to be awarded through Engineering Procurement Contract (EPC). For the current fiscal, the target is to award around 4,000 km of road projects. “We have to meet our …
Problems in land acquisition and environmental clearances have delayed as many as 58 ongoing national highways projects, including 18 in Assam, the government said on Tuesday. “Fifty-eight number of ongoing national highways projects are delayed for want of land acquisition, inter-alia, including shifting of utilities, environmental clearance etc,” Minister of …
Beware when you take a newly constructed National Highway, lest you land in the woods. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) actually intends to construct new highways in bits and pieces, as it is unable to secure environment clearance for the entire project that involves construction of stretches …
Mandi: A number of roads in areas around Mandi town remained closed for hours due to landslides, triggered by rain, in the last 24 hours. Passengers remained stranded at Dagain Nullah near Dharampur on the Mandi-Sandhol state highway, at Guma on the Mandi-Pathankot national highway and at Duad and Saat …
Over 300 shopkeepers to be affected after completion of the tunnel Work on the construction of one of the longest tunnels of the country is going on in full swing, but hoteliers and small shopkeepers of Chenani, Patnitop, Kud and Batote have some apprehensions over the project. They fear that …
To reduce time and cost overrun in highway projects, the government on Friday approved a model document for construction of highways. It is expected the move would also enable faster roll-out of projects. The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure approved the model engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement document for constructing …
New Delhi:Highway developers facing acute equity crunch would soon get a breather with National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) likely to spend at least Rs 9,000 crore in construction of two-and-half lane highways. The cabinet is likely to give a go-ahead to a proposal on Friday to start construction of …
Contractor had to complete the project in 36 months, but not a single km has been built. After the World Bank Institutional Integrity Unit exposed the ‘fraudulent and corrupt’ practices of contractors involved in highway projects, the roads ministry has found itself in yet another controversy. The cost of four …
The highways ministry is planning to set up a corporation for building Greenfield expressways across the country. The move comes after the ministry shelved its earlier plan of floating an autonomous authority on the lines of NHAI. Government sources said that the idea of corporation has found the favour since …
UP government on Monday gave in principle approval to construction of an expressway between Lucknow and Agra. The six-lane expressway that seeks to reduce the distance between the two cities from the existing 350 km to 274 km, will pass through Yadav-dominated belt comprising districts like Etawah, Mainpuri and Kannauj. …
Scores of landowners, whose land is set to be acquired for the proposed Sangrur bypass, have allegedly discovered that the map of the proposed alignment shown to them in Sangrur SDM’s office was different from the actual alignment, which the National Highway Authority of India intended to follow during construction. …
A 3,200-km trilateral highway linking India, Myanmar and Thailand will become a reality by 2016. India has given a $500 million loan to Myanmar, some of which will be used to fund the highway, said Anil Wadhwa, India’s ambassador to Thailand. In an interview to Thai newspaper The Nation, Wadhwa …
One can travel from Delhi to Agra in two to three hours After encountering several road blocks and witnessing one of the fiercest farmers’ agitations over compensation of land in 2010 and 2011 that led to a police firing in which about half-a-dozen people were killed, the 165.537 km-long Noida-Agra …
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav inaugurated the 165-km Yamuna Expressway on Thursday, more than five years after the 2003-2007 Samajwadi Party government of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav stalled the project. He inaugurated it through videoconferencing from his residence in Lucknow, while his uncle and Samajwadi Party general secretary, …
After a very successful 2011-12, in terms of the number of projects it awarded, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has failed to receive any bid for as many as six projects in the recent months. NHAI saw a huge demand for its projects last fiscal, when it awarded …
The 165-km-long Yamuna Expressway, which will reduce commuting time between Greater Noida and Agra to a mere two hours, was inaugurated today by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav from Lucknow. The fast-track road is built at a cost of Rs 12,000 crore. Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member …
NOIDA/LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav inaugurated the Yamuna Expressway by way of a videoconference from the state capital Lucknow on Thursday. Infrastructure major Jaypee Group, which has built the 165-km, six-lane freeway connecting Greater Noida with Agra, has announced to charge Rs 320 from cars and Rs 150 …
Greater Noida/ New Delhi: After several flip flops, now commuters can drive down to Agra in less than two hours taking the Yamuna Expressway from Wednesday afternoon, almost five hours after the project will be finally inaugurated. Sources said a one-way car trip could cost around Rs 320 while a …
New Delhi: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), it seems, has developed cold feet over its ongoing tussle with the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway operator. The authority had issued a show-cause notice to the operator — Delhi Gurgaon Super Connectivity Ltd (DGSCL) — in February this year on why its contract should …
