Road Transport and Highways

News: Highway projects worth Rs 25,000 crore will be undertaken in Jammu & Kashmir this year, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said. The construction of the Chenani-Nashri Tunnel project is being done by IL&FS Transportation Networks which had started work on it in May 2011. “This tunnel will be the first in ...

News: The Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the South Oil Jetty of ten million tonnes capacity, built at a cost of Rs 222 crore, for smooth movement of liquid cargo from Paradip Port. Installation of the new oil jetty would lead to enhancement of Paradip Port’s ...

News: Union Minister has declared the coastal road connecting Odissa with West Bengal as a National Highway and announced that Rs 5,000 crore would be spent for its improvement. The detailed project report (DPR) for the new National Highway from Gopalpur to Digha would be prepared before coming december. Minister also ...

News: In India, road projects are awarded via one of the three models: Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT)-Annuity, BOT-Toll, and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC). The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is all set to debut the Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) for award of highway projects by November this year. The HAM is a ...

News: Highways and shipping sectors plans to create 50 laks jobs for the massive projects worth Rs 6 lakh crore. The government is working towards a Rs 22,000 crore project to provide connectivity between India and Sri Lanka for which new openings will be required soon. The proposed project will ...

News: Steps have been taken to overhaul the highways sector, including a Rs. 4,000-crore Metrino pilot project to decongest Delhi. Under the project, fully automatic and driverless small vehicles known as pods will travel suspended under an overhead network. The ring road work from Manesar to Eastern pass, worth Rs. 6,000-crore, will ...

News: For transforming India’s 90,000 kms of national highways into green corridors, the government will soon implement an ambitious policy under which one per cent of the road construction cost will go towards planting trees, by creating a brigade of 1,000 contractors for this task. Nitin Gadkari said if the cost of road ...

News: The road transport ministry is pushing for five-fold increase in fine for first-time drunk driving while repeat offence will attract stiffer penalty besides imprisonment ranging from six months to one year and impounding of the vehicle for one year. The bill has specified the fine and penalties for those carrying ...

News: Road transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari has given permission for Green Highways Policy, which makes agencies mandatory in planting trees on highways and maintain them too. Road ministry official put forward the history of road building by rulers, who preferred planting fruit and shade bearing trees for the ...

News: NHIDCL, a government company mandated to fast-track road projects in tough terrain, including border areas, is set to award projects worth Rs 1.3 lakh crore over the next five years. The National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) will also be laying out 1,500 km of highways in various ...