Including new railway line, four-laning of highway and bridge

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stopped authorities from taking any final decision to begin work on the country's longest sea link from Sewri in Mumbai to Nhava in Navi Mumbai, saying the project entails questions on environment.

It said "substantial questions relating to environment are involved" in the over Rs 8,000 crore Mumbai Trans Harbour Link Project (MTHLP) for building 22-km bridge on public-private partnership model.

MALKANGIRI: The Odisha Government must follow the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Area (PESA) Act and the decision of the Palli Sabha regarding setting up of any industry in the scheduled area sho

GUWAHATI : An effort on the part of the Public Works Department (PWD) of Assam to get funds from the World Bank for the development of the State’s road connectivity has finally paid dividends. The World Bank has already sanctioned the funds to the State PWD.

The funds of the World Bank will be used to build 1000-km of new roads in the State. In the first phase, Rs 1950-crore has been sanctioned for building 500-km of roads in different parts of the State.

Dibrugarh (Assam): The railways are battling time and resource crunch to complete the country’s longest 4.94 km rail-cum-road-bridge across the mighty Brahmaputra at Bogibeel.

The bridge will provide connectivity to upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and cut down by 10 hours access to the border with China.

NGO City Connect gives design inputs to Chennai Corporation

Residents of the city may soon have more recreation spaces at an unlikely venue – beneath flyovers. The Chennai Corporation has planned to turn untidy, unused areas beneath all its flyovers into vibrant public spaces. Accepting many of the proposals made by a consultant City Connect, an NGO, for optimum use of space beneath five flyovers at a meeting on Thursday, the civic body decided to cover all the flyovers in the city under the beautification scheme.

NABARD extending big assistance

The government has sanctioned Rs.1,000 crore for the Public Works Department (PWD) to take up works of road and construction of bridges.The funds have been made available for the Rs.701-crore projects announced in the last budget and for the Rs.291.33-crore road development project being implemented with the financial assistance of NABARD.

A section of local residents on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court for a direction to the Government to build a pedestrians' over-bridge on a busy road near Jangpura metro rail station here.

The plea, made by Jangpura Residents Welfare Association (JRWA), is likely to come up for hearing today (Wednesday) before a Bench of Acting Chief Justice A. K. Sikri.

Bokaro, Feb.