Road Transport and Highways department
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 »
BharatiyaJanata Party-led NDA government has always considered infrastructure development in its top priorities. This ruling party came in power in April-May general election on the promise of stimulating slumped economic growth. However statistics don’t always tell the detailed story, they rather provide detailed outline of the story. As per the statistics from Centre for Monitoring [...] Continue Reading »
India is going to witness better roads by the end of 2014 as the Road transport and highways department has resolved to award 8,500 km of roadways projects out of which 3,900 km should be completed before the year end. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be discussing this issue with the key infrastructure secretaries in a few [...] Continue Reading »
All the eyes of the Road Transport and Highways Ministry are set on the Narendra Modi led new government. The road transport officials have already been instructed to jot down the hurdles and come up with an action plan to revive these stopped projects worth Rs. 1.5 Lakh crores. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has [...] Continue Reading »
The developable land in the main cities of India has almost been used! There is a shortage of land therefore the ministry of surface transport has plans of transforming major highways into residential hubs. The Road Transport and Highways department has proposed development of integrated townships in the Delhi-Jaipur expressway. This plan has been initiated [...] Continue Reading »
