Highways

Report by the District Magistrate, Agra waterlogging and inadequate drainage systems along the 12 km stretch of road constructed by the National Highways Authority of …

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 …

Lending for infra projects should be at 7-8 pc

Mumbai: Lending rates for infrastructure projects should be between 7 and 8 per cent for projects to be viable and the necessary investments to flow into the economy so as to boost growth. Planning Commission member Kirit Parikh today said that projects were not attracting bids from prospective developers due …

Industrialists file PIL for repair of national highway

Solan: Peeved over the alleged indifference of the Haryana state Government and the Centre towards the bad condition of the Pinjore-Baddi stretch of National Highway 21A, the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Industries

BRTS lanes to go down the middle

Mumbai: It's official. The dedicated bus lanes to be introduced in the city will be demarcated along the median on the highways. After much deliberation, the authorities have decided to mark these lanes along the divider, rather than the far-off ends where bus stops usually are, despite the decision requiring …

Programme to develop national highways hobbles in slow lane

New Delhi: Caught in a web of arbitration, costly debt and equity, and repeated changes in the top management of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the UPA government

NHAI plans funding to road developers

New Delhi: In a bid to prevent work on road projects from coming to a halt, the Government is considering a proposal to allow the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to extend working capital loans to developers. In a meeting held on March 7, the roads secretary and NHAI …

Work at NH 28 stopped to help stray tiger move into forest

The work of road construction at the National Highway, NH 28, near the Sitrampurmajha village in Basti district has been stopped to allow a stray tiger to move into Sohelwa forest via the Gonda reserve forest. The tiger had strayed from Ghazipur and had moved into Basti district and has …

Highway project misses deadline

Jammu: The National Highway NH1A that had been envisaged to be an all-weather freeway between Jammu-Srinagar by 2010 under the North-South Corridor Connectivity Project has missed its deadline. The four-laning of entire 300 km road project from Lakhanpur to Srinagar had started with cost estimation of Rs 7,000 crore in …

NHAI projects worth Rs 13k cr hit roadblock

Kolkata: At a time when the Centre is banking on infrastructure projects to combat the economic slowdown, over Rs 13,000-crore worth of NHAI projects which add up to 1055 km are being delayed because of inadequate government support. NHAI has halved the portion of grant accorded to private partners from …

UPA govt clears infra projects worth Rs 5,220 cr in 10 days

New Delhi: In the run-up to the polls and just before the election code of conduct kicked in, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government cleared infrastructure projects worth Rs 5,220 crore in the last ten days of February. According to an official release, the public private partnership appraisal committee (PPPAC) …

Govt clears 7 projects worth 5k cr

THE government has cleared two port projects and five highway projects with a total cost of Rs 5,220 crore to be executed jointly by private developers and various government agencies, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. A panel chaired by economic affairs secretary Ashok Chawla said the largest project by …

Arun Shourie: Govt covering up

Excerpts from Arun Shourie's speech in Rajya Sabha on Interim Budget Arun Shourie / New Delhi March 1, 2009, 0:12 IST Arun ShourieHaving stated in the Budget,

4-laning of national highways to boost tourism

AHMEDABAD: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has belted out 543-km four lane bonanza for Gujarat. These will mainly connect port towns and major cities of state with the rest of the country. Four-laning will be carried out on NH-6,59,8A and 8D. Besides this, special radial roads for both Surat …

Wider highway will snuff out Karnala's bird sanctuary

Mumbai: Karnala bird sanctuary, some 60 km south-west of Mumbai, is on verge of being destroyed after the state wildlife board approved widening of national highway 17. The board, which met after one and a half years on Friday, passed a resolution despite strong objection from some members. "I opposed …

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