Road Transport and Highways

Three key roads in Ladakh which give access to security forces to several strategic locations, including Siachen, will soon be constructed, said Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The roads connecting Leh-Demchok, Chuchul-Luma and Durbuk-Trijunction, which leads to the Siachen base camp has the inhospitable terrain in the icy heights of Himalayas ...

To transform India’s 96,000-km network of National Highways into green corridors, a Green Highways Project is likely to be launched by Union Transport Minister. Under the policy, it will be mandatory to set aside 1 per cent of the total project cost for plantation. Keen on transforming the NHs network into ...

News: The government proposes to return a substantial proportion of developed land along proposed expressways and city bypass projects to owners for commercial development. The move will help acquire space to build roads, offering a possible way out for a seemingly intractable obstacle in the way of all infrastructure development ...

News: To boost waterways, the government has prepared a Rs 400 crore project under which the centre will provide subsidy of 50 per cent to states to build floating jetties. Also, the government has decided to open up seven new major ports in the country, Gadkari said after chairing the ...

News: The Centre is planning to give the Faridabad-Noida-Ghaziabad (FNG) expressway the status of a national highway and extend it till Sohna. The FNG expressway is 56km long with 19.9km in Noida-Greater Noida, 8km in Ghaziabad and the remaining 28.1km in Faridabad. If it is extended till Sohna, its length ...

News: For easy access between Visakhapatnam and Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur, the Central Government has taken up the four-laning of National Highway 43 (NH-43) which is now renumbered as NH-26. While Visakhapatnam would get fresh business opportunities, Chhattisgarh will get access to the port and the international airport in Andhra Pradesh. ...

News: Some of India’s dark patches could soon get futuristic luminous highways. These highways, costing just 15-20 per cent more than regular highways, do not require any street lights and come to light on their own as a photo-luminescent coating similar to glow-in-the-dark paint creates ethereal looking lines that get charged by ...

News: National Highways Building Project (NHDP) is government’s flagship road building programme which envisages development of existing National Highways (NHs) into world-class roads in different phases. India has the world’s second-largest road network at 4.80 million kms and NHs comprise 2 per cent of total road network bearing 40 per ...

News: After implementing Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) on Delhi-Mumbai corridor of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ), the system was today launched on the Chennai – Bengaluru corridor aiming to help road-users save time and money. The Centre had introduced ETC for payment of user fee on National Highways through inter-operable system with the ...

News: Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari has laid the foundation stones for two road projects worth Rs 1821.20 crore at Saha in Ambala district and in Sirsa. In next five years, national highway works spending Rs 5 lakh crore would be undertaken and it would generate employment opportunities for 50 ...