The construction of an alternative highway in land-locked Sikkim is expected to begin within the next six months, the State Government said today.

Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways Kamal Nath directed his officials yesterday to expeditiously start the ground work for construction of the alternative highway within the next six months, an official release said here.

With a large number of road development projects facing a resource crunch as well as cost overrun and delay in completion in many cases, the Road Transport and Highways Ministry is seeking to double its budgetary allocation for smooth functioning.

NHAI proposes altering highway projects to 2-lanes

New Delhi: In a bid to reduce the cost for building highways and rope in more developers in phases III and V of the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP), the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has proposed re-engineering of projects to two lanes.

Six-laning Jalandhar-Karnal highway

For the six-laning of national highway-1 from Jalandhar to Karnal, chopping of trees has started. Thousands of trees have been cut down from Khanna to Sahnewal as widening of the GT Road is on. Many more trees are waiting to be chopped. As many as 43,900 trees are in Ludhiana district alone.

Shortage of credit in the market and undue interference from the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has had a negative impact on the road development in the country with a number of projects being stalled and some being delayed much beyond the target.

The four-laning project of Ranchi-Jamshedpur stretch of National Highway 33, which had almost been forgotten, has got a fresh lease of life.

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has finally found five bidders for the ambitious project to be executed under BOT (toll) basis.

Roads, as much as any form of geological life, are inevitably subject to wear and tear. Just six years ago, the Delhi-Jaipur highway symbolised India's aspiration to join the league of developed nations with smooth grey runways that made cruising at over 100 km or more a reality.

Manmohan Singh By the time you read this, some of the jostling for the key positions in the Cabinet will be over. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will be ready to begin its second innings. And everyone will be keenly watching if Manmohan Singh unveils any big bang steps to

Already having a fragile ecology due to its fast depleting forest cover, Punjab is now going to pay a very heavy price

If the Jamshedpur national highway division has its way, residents of the steel city