The issue, which has been raised with the union shipping ministry in the past, is likely to be raised at the next meeting of the Maritime States Development Council (MSDC) scheduled to be held in September.

“We deposit about Rs 5 crore per annum with the Central government as the oil pollution cess. We should be getting back some portion of it. Having already spent Rs 50 lakh for maintaining an agency, we require money for combating oil pollution in future also. Where is the money going tocomefrom?” said the official.

The highways ministry is planning to set up a corporation for building Greenfield expressways across the country.

Petroleum Ministry seeks setting up of an inter-ministerial group to draw up an action plan for pollution issues

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has sought setting up of an inter-ministerial Committee (IMC) with representatives from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the Ministry of Heavy Industries, Urban Development and Public Enterprises and the Ministry of Environment and Forests to draw up a roadmap for reduction of pollution.

New Delhi The Planning Commission and the ministry of road, highway & transport have decided to resolve their differences over the the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway, billed as the country's first suc

New Delhi: Delhi and Haryana have proposed a four-lane road from Dwarka to Dhansa-Badli-Jhajjar to de-congest traffic on National Highway 8.

Despite the civic administration’s assurances that the garbage collection crisis in the city has been nearly resolved, the central government mandate to adopt the Euro IV vehicle emission norms could upset the civic body’s plans.

Sources said the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways’ decision on implementing the Bharat Stage IV (Euro IV) emission norms in 13 major cities since April 2010 has put the brakes on important acquisitions by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s solid waste management department.

Shimla: The ambitious project of the municipal corporation (MC) to rake funds by way of imposing green tax on vehicles from outside entering the state capital may have to wait.

New Delhi: The government’s push to give more accessibility to rural areas and improve old roads continues to gain strength.

New Delhi Only those public-private partnership (PPP) projects in the roads sector which have got all other clearances need to be put up before the PPP Appraisal Committee (PPPAC), the finance ministry has told the ministry of road transport and highways.

The PPP-AC, which is chaired by the secretary-economic affairs, is responsible for examining concession agreements from the financial angle, decide on guarantees to be extended, and generally assesses risk allocation from the investment and banking perspectives, before giving the nod for an infrastructure project in the PPP mode.

New Delhi: Worried over scarcity in supply of stone and sand for construction of roads and highways, the Centre has asked chief ministers of five states — Punjab, Haryana, Jhakhand, Bihar and Tamil