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 …
With the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, on Wednesday not approving the procedural relaxations for floating of tenders for roads and highways, the Road Transport and Highways (RTH) Ministry’s target of awarding projects for 7,300 km for the current financial year is unlikely to …
Ministry Finds It Hard To Award Deals For 2,609km To meet its target of awarding 7,300 km of national highways during the current financial year, the road transport and highways ministry has sought exemption from seeking mandatory clearance of the Public Private Partnership Accounts Committee (PPPAC) before starting the bidding …
The government has decided to fast-track the clearance of roads and highways projects in the remaining months of the current financial year. After a directive from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the ministry of road transport and highways has decided to award 15 major projects, totalling 1,547 kilometres of roads, this …
Following an intervention from the PMO, the Highways Ministry has extended an assurance that it will wrap up the award of 26 road projects to ensure that the target set for the current fiscal is met. “On the direction of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Ministry of Road Transport …
Snowstorm damages houses in Bandipore. Srinagar: With little respite from snowfall and rain across the region, the Srinagar-Jammu national highway continued to remain closed for the second consecutive day today, disrupting supplies in the Valley. Rooftops of some houses were blown off during a snowstorm that ripped across Khandyal village …
New Delhi: A panel of the highways ministry has recommended a uniform one-time road tax — 6% of the price of the vehicle — across all states. At present, the rate varies from 2% to 18% in different states and it is one of the reasons why Delhi residents buy …
SRINAGAR : There was still no respite from the cold during night as the minimum remained below normal in the Kashmir valley and Ladakh region, where Pahalgam, Gulmarg, Leh and Kargil recorded below minus 10 degree Celsius temperature this morning. However, the 300-km-long Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was through while the …
Govt unable to acquire land for flyovers Shillong: Hopes for Shillongites to see flyovers in the city is about to come crashing to the ground with the government expressing its inability to acquire land for construction of these flyovers. “It is difficult to acquire land. Since most of the land …
Icy roads killing people; PWD accused of not removing snow from highway, roads. The World Bank on Monday approved funds worth Rs. 74.24 crore for about three dozen incomplete roads and bridges in Himachal Pradesh. This was communicated by Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh to Chief Minister Prem …
MUMBAI: The state government is looking beyond its proposed coastal road plan to develop a comprehensive network of urban freeways and highways connecting the financial capital of the country to major satellite townships. The 1,740-km highway corridor will be developed by 2030. This has been recommended by the 11-member joint …
The Centre has approved six national highway projects measuring about 500 km for Madhya Pradesh after Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s letter to Union Road Transport and Highways (RTH) Minister CP Joshi and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee last year. The total project cost of these projects, to be awarded under …
The Centre has sanctioned Rs 70 crore for the phase-wise renovation of NH31A at a time the Sikkim government has expressed its displeasure over the tardy pace of repair of the highway by the Border Roads Organisation. The national highway is the only road link between the Himalayan state and …
The National Highways Authority on Monday awarded the Rs24.93 billion Karachi Hyderabad Motorway (M-9) project to a Malaysian construction company.The company will complete the project on a Build Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis in three years, according to the agreement signed at the NHA headquarters. NHA chairman Syed Muhammad Ali Gardezi and …
Kashmir Valley was cut off from the rest of the country on Sunday as fresh snowfall forced cancellation of all scheduled flights and blocked the vital Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, officials said. The snowfall, started across the Valley including Srinagar late on Saturday night, also crippling normal life as most of …
SHILLONG: Following up on its decision to construct the four-lane highway along the proposed Umsning Bypass, the State Government has decided to construct the Shillong-Nongstoin-Tura road through the proposed Sohiong Bypass and not through Sohiong village as was being demanded by PWD Minister and Sohiong legislator HDR Lyngdoh. “We have …
Itanagar : The Union Road Transport and National Highways ministry has approved the 407 km Putin-Pangin road which passes through three districts of Arunachal Pradesh. The road, part of the ambitious Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH), which will touch Ziro, Daporijo and Aalo was approved by Union Road Transport & National Highways …
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure approved the implementation four-laning of Yamunanaga-Panchkula section on National Highway-73 in Haryana, on Thursday. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has already floated an e-tender for the four-laning of the 104 kilometer NH from Yamunanaga to Panchkula. With the approval of the Cabinet Committee, …
ITANAGAR: The Union Road Transport & National Highways ministry has approved the 407 km Putin-Pangin road which passes through three districts of Arunachal Pradesh. The road, part of the ambitious Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH), which will touch Ziro, Daporijo and Aalo was approved by Union Road Transport & National Highways Minister …
GUWAHATI: In a bid to develop the roads in the State, the National Highway Division of the PWD has taken a slew of initiatives. While addressing the reporters here today, Chief Engineer, PWD, NH Nripendra Nath Deka informed that the PWD had taken a new project to make the Numaligarh …
The Asian Development Bank on Monday showed its interest in providing funds for upgrading highways to be connected with the Asian Highway, communications ministry officials said. They said that ADB director Thivehumar Kandiah told communications minister Obaidul Quader at a meeting at the latter’s Secretariat office that ADB would also …
