Indian IT capital Bengaluru’s traffic condition didn’t spare even the prestigious Invest Karnataka 2016 summit as many industrial moguls including Infosys founder Mr. NR Narayana Murthy has requested the Chief Minister of the state Mr. Siddaramaiah to make the city “livable” for its inhabitants. While mqany big IT firms encourage ...
Read More »PM Inaugurates Delhi-Meerut Expressway
PM Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone for the Delhi-Meerut Expressway which aims to resolve the havoc traffic congestion in Delhi-NCR. The alignment of the Expressway will start from Nizammudin Bridge (T point km 0) from Delhi and will continue its reach in NH-24 up to Dasna (km 30.38). From ...
Read More »NHAI approves pilot project for developing greenbelt along National Highways
Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has approved a pilot project submitted by city-based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) for undertaking scientific studies on designing green-belts along national highways. The pilot project will be implemented on a 5-km stretch on NH-7 between Jam and Hinganghat at an estimated cost of ...
Read More »Maharashtra’s Yavatmal to get roads worth Rs 3000 crore: Gadkari
Union Minister Nithin Gadkari has sanctioned a sum of Rs 2,873.15 crore for the construction and broadening of various roads and construction of bridges in Yavatmal district in Maharashtra extending to 768 kms. This will generate job opportunity to the unemployed which would enable the administration to curb the spurt in ...
Read More »Centre approves Peripheral Ring Road project to Bengaluru
The government gave the green signal for the Rs 11,950-crore Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) proposed by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). The project aims to decongest vehicular traffic in Bengaluru in a big way. The cost of acquiring 1,910 acres, which works out to Rs 8,100 crore, will be borne ...
Read More »Essel Infra to build two key Rs 4,000 crore BOT road projects
Essel Infraprojects Ltd, part of Essel Group, will build two build-operate-transfer (BOT) road projects — Mukarba Chowk Panipat Toll Road and Kundli Manesar Expressway in north India. The two projects would hugely help in decongesting Delhi and easing traffic flow on roads connecting six major states with the national capital, ...
Read More »National Highways strength to be raised to 1.5 lakh km
Union Road, Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said the strength of national highways will be raised to 1.5 lakh km by this December and aiming at raising the daily road building to 30 km by March end. He further said that single lanes will be made to double lanes while ...
Read More »India transport pact with Myanmar, Thailand soon
India is set to sign a motor transport agreement with Myanmar and Thailand for seamless movement of cargo among these countries next year. “The agreement, the protocol for which is being finalised, will be signed by the last week of March or the first week of April, 2016,” Union Road ...
Read More »Gadkari effect – bureaucracy has become functional!
In corridors of power, it is believed that Gadkari has indeed taken the otherwise insignificant departments of transport and shipping by storm and has made the entire bureaucracy more accountable. has has set a target of constructing 15-km road per day and reviews it on a daily basis. To ensure clean ...
Read More »Transparency, audit to bolster highways sector growth: Nitin Gadkari
A quick and transparent decision making process, backed by decentralized power structure and a system of performance audit would go a long way in ensuring that departments are able to achieve the development work that they set out to do. Union Minister, Nitin Gadkari was speaking at a ceremony in ...
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