Road Ministry and Planning Commission
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 »
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to receive a request from the Ministry of Roads, Highways and Transport to reduce the interference of the Planning Commission and the Finance Ministry. The Road Ministry’s request to the PM to make the Planning Commission and Finance Ministry ‘less meddling’ is essentially rooted in the fact that undue [...] 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 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 »
