National Highways Authority of India
National Highways Authority of India has blamed the Planning Commission for blocking its attempts to revive the virtually-stalled road sector and sought more powers to speed up project implementation, in a fresh spat. NHAI chairman R P Singh said in a recent letter to road transport and highway secretary Vijay Chhibber said “It’s high time [...] Continue Reading »
Residents rue that repair and tarring work of the road was progressing at a snail’s pace. They alleged there was foul play in delay being caused.The Janhit Manch, Kullu, headed by Mahender Thakur, held a protest at the camping site near Raison, 11 km from here, recently with residents of Raison, Dobhi and Shirad, along [...] Continue Reading »
Among several infrastructure sectors – from road, to railway and power, there is a growing screech against the provisions of a new land acquisition law fearing a three-fold jump in acquisition cost due to the new legislation. The road transport and highways ministry has asked government to increase budgetary allocation for land acquisition, whereas the [...] Continue Reading »
The ministry of road transport and highways has started an exercise to estimate their revenue from toll collection to see if the government can build more roads with the help of its own resource. The PPP projects have been suffering of late and private players have been complaining of the low growth in the toll [...] Continue Reading »
The road trip to Udaipur will now be costlier because the NHIA has increased the toll tax on Udaipur-Shyamalaji-Ahmedabad by Rs 5 to Rs 20 for different category of vehicles. An official announcement regarding this was made recently. The average increase in the monthly expenses for vehicles that use the expressway is estimated to be [...] Continue Reading »
Following the petition from the Aam Aadmi Party, the Dakshina Kannada deputy commissioner suspended a steep toll rise on Mangalore-Bangalore highway. Mr. AB Ibrahim, Deputy Commissioner, says that he had directed Brahmarakootlu toll both officials that they should not charge commuters the revised fee. He also informed the director of National Highways Authority of India [...] Continue Reading »
The Gammon Infrastructure and NHIA have stopped the concession pacts for two road projects because of the lack of land clearances. The 2 projects allotted to Gammon in 2012, consists of the Yamuna agar Panchkula project in Haryana and the Birmitrapur Barkote project in Orissa. Gammon Infrastructure informed that the terminations were done by the [...] Continue Reading »
Starting July 1, 2014 getting environmental and forest clearances for large infrastructure projects could just be a click away with the government announcing launch of a portal, for such clearances. In recent years delay in green clearances has been one of the major concerns for industry. “On the website one will have to upload all [...] Continue Reading »
A nine member inter- departmental high powered project monitoring committee has been constituted by the state IT (information technology) department in a bid to expedite the completion of Info-valley project. Spread over 600 acres of land, the Info-Valley, the second IT Park in the city, has the development on slow lane, is. On the outskirts [...] Continue Reading »
The infrastructure company, Sadbhav Engineering informs that it has bagged a project from NHIA for development of highways. The company also informed that it is a successful bidder by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for the development of Jodhpur- Barmer Section of NH-112. This project comes under the National Highway Development Project (NHDP) and [...] Continue Reading »
