Mihir Mishra / New Delhi March 31, 2010, 1:23 IST

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is in its final stages of acquiring 80 per cent of the land required for Work Plan I. It requires 30,000 hectares. Work Plan I is the list of projects to be awarded till June this year, under which 126 projects worth a total of Rs 1 lakh crore will be awarded.

The B K Chaturvedi committee, set up by the Prime Minister to resolve issues in the roads sector, has called for a bucket-based approach to resolve disputes plaguing the sector. In its second round of recommendations to the government, the committee has suggested three buckets for the size of claims by way of which the cases can be taken up by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) .

Chandigarh: The Haryana government has finalised an integrated state-level traffic plan to prevent road accidents on highways.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to bypass states that are slow on acquiring land for national highway projects. Barring Goa, none of the states that lag behind in land acquisition are governed by the Congress.

The ministers, legislators as well the Opposition leader on Tuesday demanded immediate halt to the ongoing land acquisition process for the widening of NH4A from Panjim to Karnataka border.

Environment & Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh

S. Rajendran

New Delhi: The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) for roads and highways gave in-principal approval to convert 10,000 km of state roads to national highways (NHs). The Centre has been flooded with requests from different states and UTs for declaring nearly 50,000 km of state roads to NHs in the country.

GUWAHATI, March 16: Assam PWD Minister Ajanta Neog today informed the State Assembly that the Centre had already approved Rs 112 crore for the improvement of the 110-km National Highway-44 (Assam portion), considered the lifeline of the Barak Valley, and that the tendering process was under way in New Delhi. She said the single-lane highway would be made a two-lane one by 2012/13.

By M N Patil, Belgaum, Mar 14, DHNS:

Due to heavy plying of lorries carrying ore the National Highway 4A, a connecting road between North Karnataka and Goa, has been completely destroyed.