National Highway Authority of India
At a recently-held meeting in New Delhi, the Committee on Public Undertakings – which is a key Parliamentary financial committee – floated the idea of bringing the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) under its supervision. About the proposal to bring the NHAI under its oversight, the Committee heard out the standpoints of the Ministry [...] Continue Reading »
For someone who is on the road a lot, Virendra Mhaiskar doesn’t come across as travel-weary. That is probably because the soft-spoken entrepreneur from Maharashtra loves the outdoors and can’t stay away even though it means spending most of his time away from home. The 43-year-old chairman and managing director of IRB Ifra, who has [...] Continue Reading »
The Centre has approved the Karnataka Government’s Rs 3,000-crore proposal to convert the Bangalore-Mysore road into a six-lane national highway. The Centre has also accorded National Highway (NH) status and has numbered it ‘NH 275’. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has agreed to fund the entire project and collect toll. The State’s role [...] Continue Reading »
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has proposed a single-way tunnel between Pandoh and Aut on the Rs 4358.21-crore Ner Chowk-Kullu-Manali highway, which awaits the nod of the Ministry of Surface Transport and National Highways. As per the report submitted to the ministry, the NHAI has proposed one-way tunnel between Pandoh and Aut as [...] Continue Reading »
The project pertaining to the widening of Jaipur-Gurgaon highway stretch faces a number of hindrances with regard to its completion by the revised October 2014 deadline. Although the work on the highway has accelerated after high-level intervention, the Rajasthan government has still not acquired several hectares of land for the highway-widening project. The Rajasthan government [...] Continue Reading »
At a recently-held meeting, the Public Works Department (PWD) (B&R) Haryana, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the Gurgaon district administration passed a proposal for the construction of a flyover at Hero Honda Chowk — a high-traffic junction along the Delhi-Jaipur Highway in Gurgaon. With the proposal for the flyover having finally been passed [...] Continue Reading »
With the Raipur district administration having planned out an ambitious and crucial project for easing traffic system and curbing road accidents, the city is apparently on the verge of getting a major infrastructure facelift. The infrastructure facelift for Raipur is part of the district administration’s ambitious traffic-related project. The proposed infrastructure-related development works planned for [...] Continue Reading »
The prospects of the Varanasi Ring Road Project are apparently set to improve in the near future, with Narendra Modi-led new Government preparing to assume office at the Centre. With ministries and departments scheduled to make their presentations before Modi next week, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) headquarters is seeking the current status [...] Continue Reading »
Many developers had offered to pay high premium to the government during the high economic growth period between 2010-2012, to win the bids in projects of road widening, maintaining, and collecting toll from road users over a 20-30 year concession period. However now National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has intervened in these projects and has added [...] Continue Reading »
Two most important tunnel projects to cut the distance between twin capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway would be completed in 2016. On Banihal-Qazigund tunnel and Chenani-Nashri tunnel projects work are in progress. By June 2016 and May 2016 respectively, these projects are likely to be completed. National Highway Authority of [...] Continue Reading »
