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 World Bank has agreed to provide a $3-billion loan for developing national highways. The assistance will be utilised for converting 6,372 km of one-lane highways into two-lane, of the total of 19,702-km single-lane highways.
Nirbhay Kumar & Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI THE government has decided to form an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) to fast-track highway development projects.
New Delhi: The Centre has prepared a plan to convert 6,376 km of single-lane national highways (NH) to twolanes involving an investment of over $3 billion (Rs 15,000 crore). The government is approaching the World Bank to finance this expansion, roads, transport and highways minister Kamal Nath said on Thursday. …
The road transport and highways ministry is pitching for a $3-billion World Bank loan to convert 6,300 kilometer of single-lane national highways to two lane. There are a total of 19,000 km single-lane national highways in the country. Road transport minister Kamal Nath is expected to meet World Bank president …
Ghaziabad/Greater Noida: After the recent clash on NH-24 between the police and agitated locals, it was the turn of hundreds of farmers who took to the streets near Jaitpur village in Greater Noida protesting against the construction of the Ghaziabad-Greater Noida Expressway. The farmers allegedly beat up the road construction …
BHUBANESWAR: Three World Bank-assisted infrastructure projects worth over Rs 400 crore have remained a non-starter even after a year of awarding of contracts due to lack of cooperation from the Government. The World Bank sanctioned loan for widening and strengthening of three roads under the Orissa State Road Project. Tenders …
New Delhi: The government, keen to kickstart the stalled road programme, has drawn up plans to unroll an ambitious network of expressways to boost connectivity across key states over next few years. While the ministry of road, transport and highways (MoRTH) has envisaged constructing 15,600 km of national expressways network …
BHUBANESWAR: The Vijayawada-Ranchi National Highway passing through 13 tribal dominated districts of the State will be completed by 2014. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today reviewed the progress of different road and bridge projects at a high level meeting. Out of the 1,219 km long highway, 983 kilometre falls in Orissa …
THE road transport and highways ministry is seeking a loan of $2.96 billion from the World Bank to develop 5,937 kms of highways, cutting across 14 states in the country. The proposed loan would cover 70% of the project cost, while the rest would come from the government. Funds from …
Aug. 25: The mythological Kalpavriksha, known as Baobab tree, may face extinction in the state because of the extension of NH-9 from Hyderabad to Vijayawada. According to botanists, there are only eight such trees in the state mostly distributed in Krishna district along the highway. All the trees are several …
CCL employees insert a water pipe into the ground at Lohagate on NH-33 on Monday. Picture by Prashant Mitra Ranchi, Aug. 10: Land acquisition is delaying the much-awaited four-laning project of NH-33 between Ranchi and Hazaribagh, including a 4km bypass near Kujju, where a portion of the highway caved in …
The public of Deuduar Madanpur and Piyalikhata under Kamalpur revenue circle who had sacrificed their land for the construction of the four-lane highway have expressed strong concern over non-payment of land value till date by the government. The aggrieved public here said that though the government had given Jirat-value to …
The Prime Minister has constituted a new committee to suggest fast-track mechanisms for the resolution of inter-ministerial issues in road and highway projects that do not require the approval of the Cabinet Committee of Infrastructure. This is the outcome of the review, conducted by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, …
