National Highways Authority of India
There shall be relaxation in the rules for road developers as has been declared by the government. New norms can help road developers in selling completed projects or complete unfinished ones and in turn free them to invest in new projects which are unable to find takers in the recent years. As per the recent [...] Continue Reading »
Terming it as a black spot on his ministry, Union minister for road transport Nitin Gadkari had promised to complete the widening of Jaipur-Gurgaon national highway-8 by 2015. But his assurances are facing impediments in the absence of land availability to carry out construction. According to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), land possession remains [...] Continue Reading »
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has raised concerns over the road ministry’s decision to put on hold its proposal for allowing full equity divestment in public-private partnership (PPP) projects, arguing that a stressed promoter can be harmful for the project. In a letter to the ministry, NHAI has said that it had convinced [...] Continue Reading »
Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said his ministry was reviewing a proposal to further ease the exit policy for the sector, as demanded by the highway builders’ association and supported strongly by the National Highways Authority of India. The move comes after NHAI chairman RP Singh wrote to Vijay Chhibber, secretary [...] Continue Reading »
Eighteen states today signed agreements with the Union Transport Ministry, a move which will expedite road projects under the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) through public private partnership mode, a top government official said. On Uttar Pradesh’s refusal to sign the pact, he said, UP had agreed to sign it earlier but now they have [...] Continue Reading »
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will soon relax its norms while issuing fresh contracts for the road construction projects in Jharkhand and other Maoist-hit states. Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari, while addressing media through a video conference from Delhi, said in some pockets of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, several road [...] Continue Reading »
After a lull of several months, road projects have now got off the ground. In the last month, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has lined up about Rs.8, 700 crore worth of projects for tendering via the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) route. Although this proposes to build only 1,000km, a minuscule portion [...] Continue Reading »
Last Monday (September 1), the Rajasthan High Court,stayed the hike in toll on the Jaipur-Delhi national highway. This stay order will remain till such time the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the operator file an affidavit confirming that the road is in good condition. They also have to confirm that a proper and maintained [...] 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 »
On the sideline of IRB Infrastructure Developers’ 16th Annual General Meeting recently held in Mumbai, the toll-road company’s Chairman and Managing Director Virendra Mhaiskar said that IRB is eyeing nearly 300 kms of road contracts out of the around 3,500 kms of road projects which the National Highways Authority of India ( NHAI) is likely [...] Continue Reading »
