The cabinet committee on infrastructure (CCI) approved highway projects worth Rs 2,500 crore today. These highways will come up across Gujarat, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and will be built under the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP).

Nashik: MLAs, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders and individuals here have joined hands to launch a movement against cutting of trees.

A large number of trees on the Mumbai-Agra highway were cut or felled by the contractors over the last couple of years and many more or likely to be cut in near future for works like road widening, the activists said.

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KARUR: A total of 4,250 saplings will be planted along the State Highways in Karur district on the occasion of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's 87th birthday on Thursday.

Collector C. Munirathinam planted a sapling along the State Highway 71 connecting Karur-Guziliamparai-Dindigul to launch the project. The project is being taken up under the aegis of the Highways Department.

There are no simple solutions in the environment-development tussle, only intelligent, difficult and sometimes unpopular choices says Jairam Ramesh

NEW DELHI: Reflecting a sluggish growth in construction of national highways, the surface transport ministry could utilise just about 40% of the Rs 30,000 crore allocated for 2009-10. Despite the inability to meet the target, the ministry, however, plans an annual borrowing of Rs 20,000 crore over the next 15 years to fund its ambitious programme of building 20 kilometers of road a day.

On its concluding day, the special session of Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha unanimously passed a 70-point resolution presented by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan focusing on the state's all-round and all-inclusive development.

THIRUVANANTHAPURA: Eyebrows are raised as a govt against widening of national highways presses for 4-laning of a stretch that requires displacement SHAJU PHILIP AT A time when the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala has pleaded with the Centre to allow the state to live with narrow national highways, its interest in a 25-km stretch from Kozhikode to Kinaloor has the state's interest piqued.

Mumbai: In a scathing criticism of the Maharashtra government, the chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Brijeshwar Singh, has said that the state is nowhere as keen as its neighbour, Andhra Pradesh, to construct more national highways. He spoke to DNA on the sidelines of a NHAI meeting with investors in the city on Wednesday.

KOLKATA, 9 MAY: The Centre has recently cleared five important projects in West Bengal involving construction, widening and strengthening of roads and construction of an international standard carriageway way along the State Highway 2.
The work under the projects would start after municipal elections are over and the state government is in the process of floating tender.