Infrastructure
The Centre on Wednesday said the forthcoming visit of the Chinese President is expected to bring about a directional change in the relationship between the countries in addition to boosting trade and investments. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that some announcements are expected during the visit with regard to setting up of industrial [...] Continue Reading »
Ahead of China President Xi Jinping’s visit to the country, Beijing is showing a renewed interest in India infrastructure sectors, especially in winning road-building contracts. Sources said many Chinese teams have met road transport and highways ministry officials in recent weeks and have conveyed their interest in India’s large road projects, including those in which [...] Continue Reading »
Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal today urged Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport & Highways Nitin Jairam Gadkari to ask the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to take over the stretch of the NH-95 within the MC limit from the Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana, for its maintenance and widening. In a letter to Gadkari, the [...] Continue Reading »
Two months after chief minister Oommen Chandy promised to speed up land acquisition for the Amballoor electronic park, the state government has not issued the order to Kerala State Industries Development Corporation (KSIDC), which has been entrusted with the task of purchasing land directly from landowners. The government had decided to involve KSIDC in acquiring [...] Continue Reading »
For highways projects in India’s border states, a model green checklist is being reviewed by the Environment Ministry. The move is being undertaken with the aim of expediting the environmental clearance process for infrastructure projects in the border areas of the country. A statutory expert appraisal committee reviewing border infrastructure projects has prepared a checklist [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi Metro is rushing to complete the tunnelling work for its two new corridors as now it has to abide by the deadline of 2016. This news will give some sigh of relief to the Delhiites as on Wednesday, the DMRC announced that the tunnelling work between Netaji Subhash Place and Shalimar Bagh on the [...] Continue Reading »
In DDA’s 2014 housing scheme, out of the 25,000 flats, over 10,000 are in Rohini’s sectors 34 and 35. The DDA’s official deadline is March next year, and a majority of them are unlikely to be handed over by the deadline. Barwala villagers had filed a number of cases against DDA claiming that their land was acquired [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has revealed, in response to an RTI (Right to Information) query that most of its Metro connectivity hubs in Noida are still at a planning stage. This is due to the fact that the approvals and fund allocation from the Centre is still pending. Unfortunately the hopes of Noida [...] Continue Reading »
Illegal constructions in the prohibited area around the Faridabad Air Force station have created a lot of uproar in all the residents of the area. This situation has put the Municipal Corporation (MC) in a spot. An MC team led by the Joint Commissioner (NIT) that visited the area on Monday found around 4,000 illegal [...] Continue Reading »
A Mazgaon high-rise has become the first in south Mumbai since 2010 to get the BMC approval after height restrictions for high-rises situated close to the Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) were recently lifted by the Bombay High Court. The BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) had earlier issued a policy guideline requiring high-rise projects coming up within [...] Continue Reading »
