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 …
The total length of the under construction Four-lane Highway of the East-West Corridor in Assam is 670.65 km and the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is implementing the project. This was stated by PWD Minister Ajanta Neog in the State Assembly today. She was replying to a question of …
Agartala, July 12: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will prepare a vision document for the appropriate management and use of national highways for better connectivity in the mountainous northeastern region, a party leader said here today.
Satish Shile, Karwar, July 5, DHNS: The heavy traffic of iron ore-laden trucks plying on the two national highways of Karwar district has taken lives and limbs of many people. As many as 144 people were killed and 772 injured in 512 accidents caused by trucks carrying iron ore in …
The government has postponed the Environmental Public Hearing by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) in view of the proposed widening of NH-17 until the exact details of the project are made available. A letter dispatched to the GSPCB the Minister for Environment Aleixo Sequeira states that he had …
K P Sai Kiran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy surrounding the night-time traffic ban along the 13-km stretch of the National Highway 212 running through the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, is getting more vexed with the National Tiger Conservation Authority joining the issue. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided …
Shimla: Environmentalists fear that cutting of slopes for four-laning of the Shimla-Parwanoo section of the National Highway-22 will destabilise the fragile mountain ranges, making the stretch prone to landslides. The main concern is about the environmental fallout of widening which will involve almost vertical cutting of hills, causing huge debris, …
Malda, June 15: The widening of NH34 in Malda district has been stopped after villagers protested the acquisition of land by the National Highways Authority of India. Hundreds of villagers from Kaliachak led by district Congress president and MP from Malda South Abu Hashem Khan Chowdhury today demonstrated at the …
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways sanctioned five new national highways for Himachal on Tuesday. The highways will be upgraded out of the existing routes. The ministry also agreed to fund the 1.7-kilometre Swarghat tunnel project on the Chandigarh-Manali road. The projects were sanctioned at a meeting between …
The cabinet committee on infrastructure (CCI) approved highway projects worth Rs 2,500 crore today. These highways will come up across Gujarat, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and will be built under the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP). The CCI also approved the four-laning of 123 km Jetpur-Somnath …
Nashik: MLAs, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders and individuals here have joined hands to launch a movement against cutting of trees. A large number of trees on the Mumbai-Agra highway were cut or felled by the contractors over the last couple of years and many more or likely to be cut in …
Tiruchi Bureau KARUR: A total of 4,250 saplings will be planted along the State Highways in Karur district on the occasion of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's 87th birthday on Thursday. Collector C. Munirathinam planted a sapling along the State Highway 71 connecting Karur-Guziliamparai-Dindigul to launch the project. The project is …
There are no simple solutions in the environment-development tussle, only intelligent, difficult and sometimes unpopular choices says Jairam Ramesh here is a general belief particularly in the
The governments of the Himalayan hill-states and the international donor agencies have consistently advocated disbursal of funds for improvement of road connectivity in keeping with the mandates of a
NEW DELHI: Reflecting a sluggish growth in construction of national highways, the surface transport ministry could utilise just about 40% of the Rs 30,000 crore allocated for 2009-10. Despite the inability to meet the target, the ministry, however, plans an annual borrowing of Rs 20,000 crore over the next 15 …
On its concluding day, the special session of Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha unanimously passed a 70-point resolution presented by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan focusing on the state's all-round and all-inclusive development. The resolution was moved on May 11, the first day of the special session, which was convened with …
THIRUVANANTHAPURA: Eyebrows are raised as a govt against widening of national highways presses for 4-laning of a stretch that requires displacement SHAJU PHILIP AT A time when the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala has pleaded with the Centre to allow the state to live with narrow national highways, its …
