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 Government is all set to give a new fillip to the road transport and highways sector in the Union Budget 2010-11. It is planning to increase allocation of NHAI for National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) by 20-25 per cent and give special emphasis on projects related to road safety, …
New Delhi: Highways minister Kamal Nath has warned developers of road projects where construction is behind schedule that if they fail to achieve the desired target, NHAI might declare them
Road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has asked his ministry to draft bidding documents for mega projects in such a manner that they did not exclude top domestic players from the bidding process. The direction follows objections raised by some major domestic infrastructure players over the ministry's plan to …
THE government will frame the bidding norms for mega highway projects to ensure participation by big highway developers such as L&T;, Reliance Infrastructure, GMR and GVK. It has decided to award mega road projects involving an investment of about Rs 5,000 crore following a suggestion by foreign road developers. Road …
The road transport and highways ministry is drafting stringent bidding norms for mega-highway projects that could possibly leave even large Indian players out of the fray. This is in sharp contrast to what the ministry has argued so far with the Planning Commission with regard to the bidding document
7% Land Will Be Returned After Work Is Over Dwaipayan Ghosh | TNN Greater Noida: In a bid to smoothen the process of getting land for Greater Noida-Agra Expressway project, the Yamuna Expressway Authority (YEA) has announced it will hike its rates to acquire land by 5.63%. The move, aimed …
The state government has declared that construction of 165 km long Yamuna Express way would be completed by September 30, 2010 and has asked the construction company to expedite the work. Government spokesman said that officials of the Department of Industrial development have held a meeting with the construction company …
In a prelude to creating a national expressways authority on the lines of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath has already set a time table of works that the agency would implement. In a report drafted by the ministry, the minister has …
THE B K CHATURVEDI COMMITTEE HAS suggested ways for expeditious financing and implementation of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP). It has rectified problematic rules concerning the exit policy, bid security, security to lenders, request for qualifications (RfQ) and request for proposal (RfP). These belated measures will surely make highway …
For decades, the narrow bridge on Ganga near Kanpur has been a bottleneck on National Highway 25, connecting Lucknow with Jhansi and other places in central India. However, the daily ordeal of motorists is likely to end soon as a parallel, wider bridge will be thrown open to the public …
THE Japanese government reiterated its commitment to the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) last week. This is welcome. It should accelerate industrial activity along the 1,500-km corridor. The project will cause the existing industrial clusters along the corridor to scale up capacity, induct advanced technology, develop better linkages with user-industries and …
Coimbatore: District Collector P. Umanath along with National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) officials held a public hearing at Sulur on Wednesday to elicit public opinion on the widening of the National Highway Number 47 from Chengapalli to Walayar. The Collector addressed the …
To save over 20,000 trees from being axed during construction of three roads, the forest authorities have sought a rethink on the issue so that the green cover can be saved from shrinking further. These three road projects, including Kumarhatti-Nahan, Siuntha-Draman and Ranital Kotla, work for which has already been …
The Union Forest and Environment ministry has given a go ahead for construction of Yamuna Expressway after state government promised to plant and maintain 10,600 trees in next one year along the proposed Expressway. A highly placed source told The Pioneer here on Thursday that the Union Forest ministry has …
The first report committee on public undertakings has flayed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) over irregularities in the execution of the traffic intensive Delhi-Gurgaon highway claiming that it made certain exceptions to the usual approach to projects in order to benefit the private concessionaire. The committee has in …
Although 11th Plan allocation for improvement of National Highway has not been made State-wise, Assam has been sanctioned Rs 298.25 crore during the first two years of the plan period. The Eleventh Plan outlay for improvement of National Highways State-wise has not been made. However, an allocation of Rs 176.21 …
