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 …
While the inauguration of the Pinjore- Parwanoo bypass road has been delayed due to safety reasons, the Himachal Pradesh government has been hit by another problem - the inability to locate a site for a excise and taxation toll barrier on the proposed road stretch. The Himachal excise and taxation …
KOCHI: The Public Works Department (PWD) has formulated 50 projects which will be implemented in the state soon, PWD Minister V K Ebrahim Kunju has said. “Most of these projects have already begun. Strict instructions have been given to the officials concerned to complete the projects on time. A state-level …
Several important State highways (SH), including the busy Bangalore-Mysore and Kodagu-Mangalore routes, will soon become National Highways (NH), if the State Government has its way. The State Public Works Department (PWD) has recently proposed to the Centre to declare 21 SHs as NHs, covering 4,031 km. If the Union Ministry …
Contiguous availability for road development may be a problem still. Amidst all the noise of land acquisitions delaying highway projects, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is inching closer to acquiring a record 10,000-12,000 hectares in the current fiscal. This is the largest ever land acquisition in a year …
ITANAGAR: Three districts of Arunachal Pradesh have been facing acute shortage of essential commodities due to on going indefinite economic blockade. The agitation is spearheaded by Krishan Mukti Sangram Samiti(KMSS) in several parts of Assam in protest against the Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Project (LSHP). The East Siang, West Siang and …
Highways authority to discard public-private partnership model for EPC contract. The National Highways Authority of India plans to award construction orders worth up to . 15,000 crore in the next fiscal, deviating from its strategy of awarding projects through the public-private partnership route. The authority will award engineering, procurement and …
National Highways Authority of India organises public hearing on realignment Farmers from villages in the outskirts of the City have opposed the proposed move to build the bypass road, to come up as part of the widening of the Tiruchi-Karur section of National Highway 67, cutting across fertile agricultural lands. …
Allaying the fears of the dissident groups and civil society organisations, the District Collector has said that land acquisition for widening the Vyttila-Pettah -Tripunithura Road will be done only after detailed consultations. The members of the civil society had protested against the widening of roads to 30 metres saying it …
GANGTOK: The Sikkim High Court has directed the Ministry of Surface Transport to ensure that necessary funds were sanctioned for afforestation of highway projects, mandatory before any widening and maintenance work. The pace at which the Central government agencies, including the BRO, are progressing on the widening and maintenance of …
Five major road works will take off in the city shortly, at a total cost of Rs. 13.3 crore, and these would be completed by the end of March next year. An official of the State Highways Department told The Hindu on Friday that 2.5 km stretch from Avila Convent …
Though senior officials of the Forest Department and the Wildlife Protection Department feign ignorance, construction work on a concrete motorable road in the Mahamaya forest area, on the outskirts of the city, is soon going to start. Relief and Revenue Minister Raman Bhalla accompanied by Forest Minister Mian Altaf today …
The State government, which has already borrowed about $650 million from external sources to upgrade some of the major roads and State highways, recently made additional borrowings of $15 million to implement road works of 3,411 km in the State. The roads, the upgrading of which was taken up under …
NEW DELHI: Meghalaya Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma has sought Rs 1,040 crore from the Centre as a one-time project-mode-assistance to complete some vital infrastructure development works. Dr Sangma met the Member Secretary of Planning Commission on Tuesday and demanded an early release of the additional fund. “Meghalaya could not …
SHILLONG: The State Government may have decided to construct the four-lane road along the existing stretch of the highway at Umsning, but a cross-section of opinion makers feel that the four-lane road should be constructed along the Umsning Bypass. The Shillong Times spoke to a cross-section of people to seek …
After the four-laning of National Highway, no agriculture activities were taken up on this land. However, now the farmers have a ray of hope of cultivating paddy thrice a year. Water stagnated on farm land at Arkulabail. Thanks to a retaining wall which is under construction adjacent to the farm …
The Haryana government is funding two roads — one from Dwarka and the other from Gurgaon-Faridabad Road — which will open on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway just before the Kherki Dhaula toll plaza. This would mean all car users from Delhi will have to fork out the toll — Rs 27 …
A high-level committee headed by Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath on Wednesday cleared a Rs. 2,792-crore road project under the Karnataka State Highway Improvement Project. Addressing presspersons here, Minister for Public Works C.M. Udasi said the State highways would be developed in different parts of the State under the project and …
SHILLONG: The rift between the Ri-Bhoi Students’ Union (RBSU) and other NGOs under the banner of Joint Action Committee (JAC) seems to have intensified after the RBSU reiterated that the Government should construct the four-lane highway from the existing Umsning stretch. In a statement issued to media houses here on …
Under BOT, PPP models: Chief Minister An integrated traffic management system for Chennai will be introduced under the BOT (build, operate and transfer) mode and under the PPP (public-private partnership) annuity model, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa announced on Monday. This is to upgrade traffic management in the city to international standards, …
Shillong, Nov. 14: The Meghalaya government has decided to speed up two major pending projects, four-laning of a stretch of road from Umiam to Jorabat in Ri Bhoi district and the Shillong bypass after a meeting with the officials of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) today. Speaking to reporters …
