development of highway projects
The new minister of state for road transport & highways and shipping Krishan Pal after taking charge is all set to bring about a change in the transport sector. During the ten years of UPA regime many highway projects were stalled and reviving and expediting those projects and building a sound infrastructure for the nation will [...] Continue Reading »
India is going to witness better roads by the end of 2014 as the Road transport and highways department has resolved to award 8,500 km of roadways projects out of which 3,900 km should be completed before the year end. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be discussing this issue with the key infrastructure secretaries in a few [...] Continue Reading »
The biggest obstruction on the road to successful development of highway projects is the acquisition of land. According to the top official of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the government coming to power should make this issue their top priority in order to deal with it the right way. The infrastructure projects are [...] Continue Reading »
UPA-II is focusing on upcoming elections with a poor performance in the highway development. The government’s target is to construct 20 Kms per day but they were able to develop only 11 Kms per day which is worst performance since 2008-09. The total tally of highway construction till March 31 is calculated at nearly 4, [...] Continue Reading »
The government of India has decided to attract public-private participation, in National Highways projects. To implement the government strategy the NHAI has adopted Build-Operate-Transfer [BOT] (Toll) mode of delivery under public private partnership (PPP) as the preferred mode for development of highway projects. The cost of construction varies on different territory of India. To recover [...] Continue Reading »
