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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is looking at ways to ensure against unduly aggressive bids with a large number of developers abandoning flagship projects — the GMR Group walked out of the Kishangarh-Ahmedabad project in FY13. While the GMR Group had bid a first-year premium of Rs 636 crore for this project, the [...] Continue Reading »
It is feared that several infrastructure sectors – from road, to railway and power – may see three-fold jump in acquisition cost due to the new land acquisition law. The road transport and highways ministry has asked government to increase Budgetary allocation for land acquisition. The ministry also suggested the government to seek opinions from [...] Continue Reading »
Two Maharashtra road projects with a combined cost of about Rs.4,500 crore may be cancelled by L&T as they have turned ‘financially unviable’. The company has also communicated this with L&T. NHAI has directed the company to wait till the polls are over. The projects involve widening of 485 km of carriageway on two highways: [...] Continue Reading »
In pursuance of an earlier order, NHAI recently submitted relevant records before a Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul. The court heard the plea of DP Majhi, who is presently working as an under-secretary in Human Resources Development Ministry and asked NHAI to produce relevant files before it to “resolve [...] Continue Reading »
According to a report, in the third quarter of the current fiscal, Investment cycle in the construction sector is likely to improve if a stable government comes to power at the Centre after the general elections. Credit rating agency ICRABSE mentioned in its report that until September, though there were expectations of facing execution challenges [...] 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 »
The NHAI felled a huge neem tree for road widening near the sports complex on Mankapur Road despite public interest litigation (PIL) pending in the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) seems to be behaving as if it is above the law. The division bench of Justice BR [...] Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »
