The drastic fall in private investment in road and highway projects has prompted Parliament’s standing committee on transport to suggest a review of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model – touted by many senior government officials as the only way to bring in money and developing infrastructure in India.

In 2012-13, only 9 projects offered by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) got bids whereas as many as 13 projects saw no takers.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on transportation, tourism and culture in its report on the demand for grants by the road ministry said that with private capital gravitating towards only profitable projects, unprofitable projects getting no bids must be developed using budgetary support instead.

Delay in completion of port road connectivity (PRC) projects and loss of toll revenue had resulted in a loss of around Rs 873.85 crore to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), said the C

The Tamizhaga Vivasaigal Sangham plans to organise a protest in two weeks against the proposed bypass road from Kangeyampalayam to Mettupalayam.

State president of the sangham M.R. Sivasamy told presspersons here on Tuesday that he was also seeking the support of political parties and the protestors would stage a picketing here in the second week of May.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has served notices to 14 authorities directing them to remove all boards, nails and advertisements from trees falling under their jurisdictions and has directed th

Suggestion came when neither the NHAI nor the Pune civic body was willing to undertake the task of replanting trees

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday suggested the Pune Municipal Corporation to take the help of school and college students for replanting of those trees which shall be cut for the road widening project on the 800-km Mumbai Bangalore highway. A division bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Amjad Sayed was hearing an application filed by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) seeking permission to cut 1,307 trees falling in the jurisdiction of the Pune civic body for widening the highway from four lanes to six lanes.

The Coal Ministry has written to the Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI) for streamlining granting of clearances by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) for various coal mining projects in the country.

The Coal Ministry has asked the CCI to consider parallel processing of environmental clearance (EC) and forest clearance (FC) for coal projects as in the case of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) projects. “Further, the issue of enhanced borehole density for exploration in forest areas without the need for seeking prior EC needs to be resolved urgently,” the Coal Ministry note states.

New Delhi: Projects worth over Rs 7 lakh crore — which is equivalent to almost half the government spending in the current financial year — are held up in the absence of environmental and forest cl

Putting an end to the face-off between the National Highways Authority of India and Ministry of Environment & Forests, the latter has delinked environmental and forest clearances in case of all

Work could soon begin in a clutch of stranded highway projects with likely combined investments of over R20,000 crore, as the Union environment ministry is set to give them approvals in one go.