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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 »
The clauses in the relevant laws for accelerating clearances for road projects will apparently be relaxed by the Environment Ministry, on the instructions of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The PMO has also told the Road Ministry an amendment can be made in the National Highways Act to ensure that the compensation given to the [...] Continue Reading »
The Road Transport and Highways Ministry apparently wants that concrete cement should be used in place of bitumen, in fully Government-funded projects and public-private partnership (PPP) road projects. Towards that end, the Ministry is reportedly mulling the option of making the use of concrete cement obligatory as part of the bid for such projects. The [...] Continue Reading »
For the establishment of buildings and concrete roads, the road transport and highway ministry has been working hard to excise exemption of duty for cement. It was quite recently that this proposal came up. It happened right after the current Modi government planned to establish more highways using cement rather than option for bitumen roads. [...] Continue Reading »
The new government led by Narendra Modi has been making plans to come up with a multi-billion dollar fund in order to push the investments further. This plan has been taken up since the economy of the country desperately needs a boost, especially in the infrastructure sector. The Road Ministry has already started to have [...] Continue Reading »
The NaMo government is determined to change the infrastructure landscape for the country. Within the next 6 months 11 projects worth more than Rs 18,000 crore will kick start this change. Transport minister Nitin Gadkari has asked for a priority list of projects from the road ministry which can be processed promptly. An official also [...] Continue Reading »
There are differences spurring up between the ministry of road transport and highways and the Planning Commission over the appraisal procedures. The last pre-appraisal meeting for public-private partnership (PPP) which was called by Gajendra Haldea, the adviser to the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission on May 30 was not attended by the ministry. Mr [...] 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 government is planning to come up with a company, National Highways Construction Company, for building roads in border areas and north eastern regions. A road ministry official informed that while NHAI (National Highways Authority of India) build roads all over the country, this company will focus on building roads in border areas and in [...] Continue Reading »
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has blamed the state government for delay in 4-laning of Yamunanagar-Panchkula highway stretch of NH-73. Infrastructure major Gammon has walked out of the project on grounds of non-availability of land, delay in environment and forest clearances, besides scarcity of construction material in the state. Gammon was to invest [...] Continue Reading »
