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 …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Friday green-lighted the felling of trees to expand highways in Saurashtra by rejected a PIL which sought to restrain the administration from chopping down nearly 10,262 trees. While dismissing the PIL, however, the bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala ordered …
According to this latest Basic Road Statistics Report published by the highways ministry, congestion in urban areas has risen due to the disproportionate increase in road length & vehicular growth. Says that growth of cars in the past decade has surpassed two-wheelers. The 'Basic Road Statistics of India' is a …
GANDERBAL, July 30: The residents of Malshahibagh village of Chief Minister’s constituency in district Ganderbal today held massive protest demonstrations, blaming the government for prolonged delay in the completion of work on PMGSY road in the village. "We had voluntarily donated our land for construction of the link road in …
Compensation To Farmers For Acquisition Goes Up By 10.4% . Noida/Greater Noida: Buying a house or land in Noida, Greater Noida and the Yamuna Expressway areas has become costlier. In a board meeting held on Wednesday, the three development authorities announced a substantial hike in the allotment price across all …
New Delhi: The government’s push to give more accessibility to rural areas and improve old roads continues to gain strength. In the past eight years, at least 1.25 lakh km per year was added to India’s road network. Moreover, the percentage of surfaced road — both concrete and bituminous — …
Villagers opposing land acquisition clashed with police at Asalwas, 90 km from Delhi, on Sunday, torching several vehicles and blocking the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway. The police opened fire to disperse the protesters. Over 60 people, including police personnel, were injured when protesters — opposing the acquisition of 3,300 acres in …
The issues of `Framing ecologically sound policy for dealing with linear intrusion’ was discussed during the 5th Meeting of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) held on 18th March 2010 under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Prime Minister wherein it was resolved that the Ministry would formulate necessary guidelines. The matter …
Highway projects, industrial estates, complexes and parks, special economic zones (SEZs), ports and harbours have been designated as industries with high pollution potential by the State Government. In the latest notification, the Forest and Environment Department after consulting the Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has added 22 more industries …
DURGAPUR, 18 JULY: The Durgapur police has asked freight services operators to intensify use of Global Positioning Satellite(GPS) technology across the Asansol – Durgapur industrial hub. This, the police believe, “would help to detect hijacked vehicles and improve freight flow and contribute to reduced congestion and pollution.” The police also …
Gangtok, July 17: A landslide near the Bengal-Sikkim border at Rangpo last night kept the main NH31A route to the hill state blocked for nearly 17 hours. The highway that connects Sikkim with the rest of the country was cleared for traffic at 4pm today. Over 500 vehicles entering Gangtok …
TOI Takes A Ride On The Delhi-Agra Yamuna Expressway To Bring You A Sneak Preview. The monsoon is chasing us. We are nearing the third toll plaza on the Yamuna Expressway and the dark clouds hovering above are dancing wildly like dervishes in delight. We have left the Formula One …
RoadMin for upgradation of 20,000 km highways to two-lane standards on EPC basis during the XIIth Five-Year Plan To accelerate highway building process, Road Transport Ministry is all set to bid out at least 3,000 km of projects this fiscal and 20,000 km by 2017 under EPC mode that minimises …
SHILLONG: Road links to the northeastern States of Mizoram, Tripura and parts of Manipur and southern Assam remained cut off from the rest of India on Sunday, following massive landslides on a major highway in Meghalaya, an official said Sunday. The National Highway No 44 at Sonapur and Tongseng in …
New Delhi: Worried over scarcity in supply of stone and sand for construction of roads and highways, the Centre has asked chief ministers of five states — Punjab, Haryana, Jhakhand, Bihar and Tamil Nadu — to intervene and issue quarrying licences to contractors. Highways minister C P Joshi has appealed …
New Delhi The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a Rs.648-crore project for two-laning of a national highway in Rae Bareli, falling under the constituency of Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Of the R648 crore, R78.62 crore has been earmarked for land acquisition, resettlement, rehabilitation and pre-construction, while R569.36 …
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a Rs 648-crore project in Uttar Pradesh for widening the Raibareilly -Jaunpur highway section. The project falls under the government’s flagship road building programme — National Highways Development Project. “The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has approved the proposal for the development of the two-laning, …
New Delhi: With award of highway projects slowing down due to bad market sentiment, the government is banking on rolling out about 3,000-4,000 km highway projects with 100% financial support. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which has identified these stretches, is likely to spend about Rs 15,000-Rs 20,000 …
The projects cut across the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka The government is likely to give nod for construction of 11 road projects worth about Rs 15,000 crore this week, a government official said. "Road Ministry has sent a proposal for building 11 highway projects to the …
Ranchi, July 10: In a fillip to national highways in Jharkhand, the Union ministry of environment and forests today gave its final environmental clearance for widening an 80km stretch of NH-33 between Ranchi and Jamshedpur, delay over which has held up the Rs 1,500 crore-plus project since April 2011. A …
Cabinet likely to take up the bill for consideration by the end of month, in time for its introduction in monsoon session Special Economic Zones will need to fulfill provisions of the proposed Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, if the rural development ministry has its way. The draft …
