Reliance Infrastructure has bagged a Rs 2,676 crore-expressway project connecting Faridabad, Noida, Ghaziabad and Sonepat. The company, a sole bidder for project, will recover its investment in 20 years by collecting toll from expressway users.

There seems to be no end to the worries of the local municipal and administrative authorities here. First, they faced the wrath of the residents of city

New Delhi: Illegal mining in the face of falling groundwater levels and non-implementation of environment rules is posing a huge problem for the NCR. After Gurgaon, where groundwater levels have considerably gone down, it's now Faridabad district where mining activity is gaining momentum.

Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has recently reaffirmed the authorised status of IGL to serve not only the city of Delhi but also its suburbs in NCR. Going ahead with its expansion plan to meet the public demand, the IGL will cover the areas namely Noida, Gurgaon and Faridabad. The decision came following the certain regulatory issues and interpretations put the IGL, a decade-old joint venture company of GAIL, BPCL and Government of NCT of Delhi, expansion on hold due to spiralling prices of other fuel which made consumer to go rapidly on CNG.

The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has sanctioned 15 solar power plants of 1 kilo watt power each in 13 sub-divisions of DHBVN, Sirsa and in two sub-divisions of DHBVN, Faridabad. This step would help to meet the power requirements, besides creating awareness among the masses about the generation of power through solar photovoltaic technology.

Chandigarh In the agrarian states of Punjab and Haryana, power cuts have been the order of the day for years. This, in turn, has affected economic development in these states. While the two states have decided to spend almost one-third of their five-year Plan for 2007-12 on power projects, they have also realised that the immediate need was to save energy. With that in mind, Punjab has tied up with a US major, Econoler International, to light the streets of municipal areas of the state.

ITT India, a subsidiary of ITT Corporation, today signed an MoU with Selecto Systems Pvt Ltd to help make GreenSpaces, the most energy-efficient commercial building in the world.

Chandigarh: A Complete and revised survey on the proposed Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway has revealed that nearly 35,000 vehicles would pass over this 135-km stretch after it would be laid completel

The Haryana government has decided to constitute a committee comprising transport, urban development departments and Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Secretary for the purpose of formulating a traffic management plan for Gurgaon and other towns of the state.