National Highways Authority of India
Over recent years, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is not ready to accommodate an increase in project costs due to which road developers are in a fix. Since a number of projects have seen a 30 per cent rise in costs such as rise in bitumen, diesel and labour expenses, besides interest rates, developers [...] Continue Reading »
The weakened highways sector could get a boost with the government planning to do new construction and development model that will make it cheaper to build and operate projects. This modified annuity-based model is expected to help the government to build highways owing to lack of interest by the private sector of late, towards a [...] Continue Reading »
In the third year of the UPA-II regime a large part of the project to build 2,500 km of highways was awarded which has now been cancelled. In 2011-12 most of these projects were awarded by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Because of the economic slowdown in the succeeding years 2012-13 and 2013-14 [...] Continue Reading »
Mr. Devesh Kumar, Deputy Commissioner, Mandi, has asked the project director of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to conduct a fresh survey of the proposed four-laning of the Kiratpur-Ner Chowk national highway. Mr. Joginder Walia, president of the joint action committee, says that the decision was taken at the meeting conducted under the [...] Continue Reading »
An analysis of national highway project done by CRISIL Research indicates a drop in the traffic growth in the last couple of years. The common traffic on many national highways has been very low than estimated by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). CRISIL researched on 15 national highways and found that the traffic [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Ambience Lagoon and DLF U-block decided to meet the officers of NHAI to register a complaint against the decision to block the U-turn near Ambience Mall. The residents also say that this decision of blocking the U-turn is creating disturbance in their normal life. On Wednesday evening almost 70 residents stopped the traffic [...] Continue Reading »
The Ambience U-turn in Gurgaon has been closed for commuters by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). It is a prominent turn and will affect hundreds of families living in residential areas around the mall as well as those coming from IFFCO or Shankar Chowk. The commuters will now have to take a detour to [...] Continue Reading »
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 »
The highways ministry is getting nervous because the latest land acquisition law could be responsible for increasing the cost of highway construction projects. On one hand, the UPA government claims that the new land acquisition law is its one of the achievement during their current tenure. While on other, projects like the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway being [...] Continue Reading »
The state government’s proposal of four-laning of the 220-km National Highway No. 20 (Pathankot-Mandi) has been once again rejected by the Ministry of Surface and Transport. The National Highways Authority of India had not included this important road project in its plan outlay for 2014-15, in the absence of political will as per the official [...] Continue Reading »
