Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Devavrat Kumar Sahani Vs State of Bihar dated 07/04/2025. The application was being registered on the basis of a letter petition dated December 27, 2024 sent to the NGT by the applicant, Devavrat Kumar Sahani, Muzaffarpur, …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG;) on Government of Odisha relates to matters arising from Performance Audit of selected programmes and activities and Compliance Audit of Government departments and Autonomous Bodies. The primary purpose of the Report is to bring to the notice of the …
Bokaro, Feb. 22: Sudesh Mahto today laid the foundation stones for two road projects and promised Rs 50 crore for renovating a decades-old barrage in Chandankyari, claiming that Ajsu had done more for the backward block in 26 months than any other party did in five decades. The two road …
After East Delhi, it’s the turn of upmarket South Delhi to boast of Metro lines across river Yamuna. The two upcoming bridges (both 600 m long) will connect Nizamuddin in South Delhi with Mayur Vihar phase I in East and another will link Kalindi Kunj (South) to Noida. While one …
Shimla: The World Bank has sanctioned Rs 74.24 crore for the remaining 37 roads and bridges in different parts of the state. Stating this here yesterday, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said he had received a communication from Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh in this regard. He said …
After remaining under-construction for more than eight years, a section of the flyover, which comprises Wazirabad’s Signature Bridge, is expected to be ready by March. One carriageway of the 1.5-km-long flyover on the Outer Ring Road — covering four intersections at Timarpur, Nehru Vihar, Wazirabad and Mukherjee Nagar — will …
MUMBAI: The plans for the second line of the Mumbai Metro on the Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd route have got a shot in the arm with the railways granting permission for a Metro bridge across the Central Railway (CR) lines at Kurla and Mankhurd. This is seen as a major development by senior …
Dharamsala: The Himachal Pradesh High Court has formed a committee under Deputy Commissioner, Kangra, RS Gupta, to submit a report on the impact of illegal mining on two railway bridges over the Chakki river on the Punjab-Himachal border. The bridges are a board-gauge railway line bridge connecting the Pathankot-Jalandhar railway …
ITANAGAR: The newly formed Nabam Tuki Government has paved way for massive private investments in various viable sectors of the State with the Cabinet today unanimously adopting the State PPP Policy 2011. This path-breaking initiative will open up the gates for development of various infrastructure sectors, both physical and social, …
The French Government has pledged Euro 22 million (Rs. 3.3 billion) of assistance to develop infrastructure of Sri Lanka. The France funded project involves widening and reconstruction of 46 bridges. Most of the bridges of the 12,000 km road network of the island is either too weak or too narrow …
Doing nothing can be a very successful strategy in tiding over difficult situations. Seasoned administrators have often perfected the art of inaction. Sometimes doing nothing can be costly. Fires must be put out and the critically ill rushed to medical care. Even while pondering on the situations in which inaction …
GUWAHATI: For the first time, the Assam Government will use remote sensing technology to tackle the problem of erosion in the State. Continuous erosion triggered by the Brahmaputra and its tributaries has been gobbling up huge chunks of land in upper Assam districts, rendering thousands of people homeless and disturbing …
Union road transport and highways minister C P Joshi on Tuesday called for a stronger political mandate to involve private enterprise in the development of the country's creaking infrastructure. Opposition to public-private partnership (PPP) needs to soften if India was to hasten expansion of roads, ports and bridges, he felt. …
The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) would soon undertake a survey for preparing a detailed project report (DPR) to make the chief minister's dream project~ beautification of banks along the river Hooghly~ successful. The state urban development minister, Mr Firhad Hakim, today held a meeting with the mayor and officials …
The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) would soon undertake a survey for preparing a detailed project report (DPR) to make the chief minister's dream project~ beautification of banks along the river Hooghly~ successful. The state urban development minister, Mr Firhad Hakim, today held a meeting with the mayor and officials …
The Malaysian government intends to invest Tk 27,450 crore in building flats, flyover and satellite towns in Bangladesh, said ministers of both the countries at a joint press conference in Dhaka yesterday. The two governments signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard on Tuesday. Malaysia aims to build …
Ranchi, Oct. 16: Rural development department officials are likely to pitch for the construction of around 1,845 new roads in the hinterlands of Jharkhand during their meeting with Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, scheduled for October 17. The proposal, which will be formally made by deputy chief minister Sudesh …
BHUHBANESWAR: Nabard has sanctioned Rs. 331.28 crore to the State Government for construction of 12 rural roads and 16 rural bridges, and execution of 228 minor irrigation schemes under Biju Krishak Vikash Yojana and 36 projects of minor irrigation, drainage system improvement and flood protection. The projects getting assistance under …
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will build two more bridges across the river Yamuna as part of its Phase- III project, which will be part of the Mukundpur to Yamuna Vihar and Janakpuri to Kalindi Kunj corridors. Bids invited The Delhi Metro has invited bids for construction of the two …
To prevent accidents and ensure free flow of traffic Underscoring that the growth of a State would be judged best by the quality of well-connected roads, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday announced various projects, including the development of three Chennai roads to international standards and extension of East Coast Road …
Many rail bridges in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are facing threat of being damaged due to illegal quarrying of stone and other building materials from the riverbeds by the mining mafia. Illegal mining has increased in these areas due to steep rise in price of building material. …
