Infrastructure
After the new land acquisition law came into force, the Road Transport and Highways (RTH) Ministry is looking for options like real estate development along the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway to finance it as land cost alone has trebled. After the new law came into force the land cost has trebled, the cost of ~11,750 project that [...] Continue Reading »
A final decision on the future of large road projects awarded by the UPA-II government including widening of the 555-km Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad road bagged by GMR will depend upon the next government. The reason for this is that some developers will start project only if the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) compensates them for the [...] Continue Reading »
The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) at Shalimar Bagh recently completed a tunnel under the operational Ring Road on the Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar metro corridor. The tunnel at Shalimar Bagh was constructed by DMRC engineers without any problem to the traffic running on the ring road above. The TBM completed the task of a [...] Continue Reading »
The Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) denied the possibility of acquiring more land for construction of Operation Control Centre (OCC) at Muttom. The Metro agency mentioned that the facility would come in focus at the site identified for Kochi Metro’s coach maintenance yard at Muttom. KMRL spokesperson says that the design of the maintenance yard has [...] Continue Reading »
Infrastructure firm IL&FS Engineering and Construction informed that they were successful in getting a Rs 300- crore contract for elevated metro stations on Kolkata Metro Line in West Bengal by Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL). The company says that they are awarded a contract by RVNL, Kolkata for a value of Rs 299.76 crore for [...] Continue Reading »
The government is planning to come up with a company, National Highways Construction Company, for building roads in border areas and north eastern regions. A road ministry official informed that while NHAI (National Highways Authority of India) build roads all over the country, this company will focus on building roads in border areas and in [...] Continue Reading »
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has blamed the state government for delay in 4-laning of Yamunanagar-Panchkula highway stretch of NH-73. Infrastructure major Gammon has walked out of the project on grounds of non-availability of land, delay in environment and forest clearances, besides scarcity of construction material in the state. Gammon was to invest [...] Continue Reading »
The highways ministry is seeking Election Commission’s nod to award works for over 60 road projects involving over Rs 22,000 crore investments. In the past one month, finances for the first set of about 55 works have been sanctioned by the ministry. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has called financial bids for 22 projects, [...] Continue Reading »
At Dhaula Kuan, Delhi Metro line is 23m high, which is not the highest in the network but it is a difficult task to build it much higher. A heavy traffic intersection, flyover and Airport Metro Express will be fully operational that’s why it is a big task to construct the elevated track of the [...] Continue Reading »
Due to so much infrastructure development, many experts are now saying that Greater Noida has over shadow the developments in other NCR cities like Gurgaon and Faridabad. In Greater Noida so many multiuse residential and commercial projects are starting. Greater Noida is located in Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh has developed so much and [...] Continue Reading »
