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 …
82-km Kannur-Vengalam stretch to be developed into four lanes Renewed efforts will be taken to accelerate the steps for acquiring land for widening the Kannur-Vengalam reach of the National Highway 17 (NH-17) to develop it into a four-lane highway. Public Works Minister V.K. Ebrahim Kunju will be holding a meeting …
New Delhi: To complete the already delayed north-south corridor, the highways ministry will now seek additional budgetary support of Rs 10,340 crore for two four-laning projects in Jammu and Kashmir. The National Highways Authority of India has already used more than the sanctioned budget support of Rs 26,599 crore in …
Government will respect people's sentiments Revenue Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan has said that the United Democratic Front government will not forcibly acquire land for development activities. “We will not go beyond the sentiments of the people when acquiring land for development of the State,” he said while inaugurating a mini Civil …
Irregular supply of raw material, financial crunch, delayed clearances key hurdles Chandigarh: When the proposal to six-lane the highly congested stretch of the National Highway No. 1 between Panipat and Jalandhar was cleared in May 2008, it raised hopes of high speed road travel between the country’s Capital and the …
BHUBANESWAR: With the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) neglecting its roads within the State, the Government on Tuesday urged the Centre for up-gradation, maintenance and modernisation of the highways. The issue was raised at a meeting attended by Union Secretary for Road Transport and Highways AK Upadhyaya here. The …
GMR Infrastructure is close to winning a Rs 1,500-crore highway project in Andhra Pradesh. The company, based in this city, is bidding aggressively for this 145-km project connecting Hyderabad with Sangareddy, a district headquarters to the northwest, on the route to Mumbai. According to senior officials of the National Highways …
Curtains on craters, the city is ready to get the show on the road. The Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) has drawn up a Rs 4-crore revamp plan for 40 roads, the tender for which will be opened on November 18 and work will commence at respective sites from December. …
AHMEDABAD: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to widen the Ahmedabad-Rajkot and Bamanbore-Samakhiyali stretches of the national highway grid. NHAI has invited tenders for a technical report to make the highways six lanes wide. Officials in NHAI said that the stretch already has four lanes and NHAI …
Four-lane highways, a mega desalination plant, construction of houses, schools, hospitals as well as cold storages are amongst the suggestions to the central government made by former president A.P.J. Kalam for the development of Kudankulam and surrounding areas in Tamil Nadu. In a report, Kalam, who Sunday visited the Kudankulam …
High-altitude areas of Jammu and Kashmir, including the famous ski resort of Gulmarg, on Friday experienced the season's first heavy snowfall leading to the temporary closure of 434-km-long Srinagar-Leh national highway, officials said. Strategic highway According to a spokesman of the Traffic Department, traffic on the strategic highway, the only …
New Delhi After a short period of lenience in allowing coal mining in “no-go” forest areas, the environment ministry has decided to impose stringent penalties on violators. In a significant move, the ministry has categorised non-compliance with the environment clearance (EC) conditions as ‘serious’ and ‘not-so-serious’ across 27 sectors and …
Panel to evaluate report which identified 100 routes The city's residents may be keenly anticipating the launch of the metro and monorail services. But, the next big innovation in public transportation may yet turn out to be the return of the humble bus — one with a shorter wheelbase and …
In an attempt to put an end to the illegal resorts mushrooming around the fringes of Bandipur tiger reserve (BTR), the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests (MoEF) has directed the State Forest Department to ensure status quo on those resorts to which it has already accorded permission. MoEF, in …
KOLKATA, 27 OCT: In a move to improve the road network in Darjeeling and some other border districts, the state government has decided to spend Rs 150 crore over the next year under a Border Area Development Programme (BADP). The Thirteenth Finance Commission will provide the funding for the project, …
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure has approved the project of four laning of Vijayawada-Machilipatnam section of National Highway (NH)-9 in Andhra Pradesh under the National Highway Development Programme phase IV-A. This project would be taken up on DBFOT (design, build, finance, operate and transfer) basis in BOT build, operate and …
The Centre has cleared a proposal for laying a six-lane expressway between Bangalore and Chennai, where vehicles can zoom at a speed of up to 120 kmph. The expressway, the first of its kind in the country, will be built with public-private participation on a build-operate- transfer (BOT) basis and …
Looking to give a push to infrastructure development in the country the central government has approved building over 1,000 kilometres of expressways under its flagship road building programme NHDP at an investment of Rs 16,680 crore. The projects include the 400 km long Vadodara-Mumbai, the 66 km long Delhi-Meerut, 334 …
The government today said it has approved building over 1,000 kilometre of expressways under its flagship road building programme NHDP, entailing an investment of Rs 16,680 crore. The projects include 400 km long Vadodara-Mumbai, 66 km long Delhi-Meerut, 334 km long Bangalore-Chennai, and 277 km Kolkata-Dhanbad expressways. “The construction of …
Alarm bells have started ringing in the government over recent trend of highway builders quoting huge premiums to bag contracts. Road transport and highways minister CP Joshi has directed his officials to do a risk analysis of such bids and devise a mechanism to secure the completion of projects. Essentially, …
New Delhi: UPA-2’s target to build 7,000km of roads a year may be a reality soon, as the next two years are likely to record 20,000km of road construction, given the projects awarded so far. Construction is in progress on 16,000km, and the ministry has to award 11,050km in the …
