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Road Transport and Highways Minister recently stated that once the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system becomes effective on a pan-India basis by December, the country will be able to save as much as Rs. 86000 crore annually. Estimated Losses: Lack of computerisation in the electronic toll collection system causes a lot of delay at the [...] Continue Reading »
On November 25th Tuesday, the Union Minister of Transport, Highways and shipping Mr. Nitin Gadkari revealed his concern over New Delhi’s traffic issues. The minister expressed his deep concern on the increasing pollution along with the traffic stagnation across the capital. The government expressed its concern for building new roads and other infrastructures to ease [...] Continue Reading »
The makeover of Mumbai’s majorly derelict docklands is under planning stage. If in case the panel appointed by the government approves, a waterfront can uplift the mood of the city and its rich. Narinder Nayar, an entrepreneur who’s based from this panel, who will be unleashing his recommendations this week exclaimed that, this would be [...] Continue Reading »
The government is planning a redevelopment of Mumbai’s most derelict docklands. It is predicted that if the government panel can have its way, it enable them to create a waterfront which the city people can visit to lift their spirits and the rich can go to play. Mumbai is the second most densely populated city [...] Continue Reading »
Union Minister for Surface Transport, Highways and Roads, Nitin Gadkari, accompanied by MOS, Prime Minister’s Office, Dr Jitendra Singh, met Governor NN Vohra here at Raj Bhawan today. Gadkari and the Governor discussed issues relating to the aftermath of the devastation caused by the floods, particularly the damage caused to the road network and washing [...] Continue Reading »
Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari has said awarding contracts to build roads through the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) route would revive the confidence of private developers. Following this, he feels, the public-private partnership mode would gain currency automatically. Gadkari said this during an interview, when asked whether the road ministry’s recent preference for EPC [...] 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 »
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 »
In a move that will come as a big relief to commuters, the government has decided to scrap toll on all highway stretches where developers have recovered their investment, highways minister Nitin Gadkari said on Monday. We cannot scrap the toll on highways that have been awarded on public private partnership model as that would [...] Continue Reading »
The government today said it had set a time frame of three years to achieve the target of constructing 30 km of road everyday and steps towards that have been taken with the clearance of projects worth Rs 16,000 crore in the first 100 days of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre. Addressing [...] Continue Reading »
