New Delhi Government is targeting awarding road construction projects of 4,000 km length in the current fiscal through the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode.

Of this, bids for road projects of 2,650 km length has been invited by ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH). The remaining will be done by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), MoRTH secretary A K Upadhyay said here on Thursday.

New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India has drawn CAG’s flak for the potential loss of Rs 874 crore on account of delays in completion of projects for connecting major ports through hig

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Annoyed over the increasing chaos on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway and the “failure” of the concessionaire to provide relief to motorists, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday stayed the col

Concessionaire had failed to comply with orders

In a significant development, a Division Bench of the Punjab & Haryana High Court on Tuesday restrained the Delhi-Gurgaon Super Connectivity Limited ( DGSCL) from collecting toll tax on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway for 15 days. The Bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Jasbir Singh and Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain, said: “The concessionaire will not collect toll fee from 11.59 p.m. onwards on Tuesday for the next 15 days.’’

GAIL pulled up for undue benefit of Rs 246 crore to private firms

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pulled up Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for hiring a drilling rig from Reliance Industries (RIL) without calling for competitive bids. It also indicted GAIL (India) for giving over Rs 246 crore of undue benefit to private power companies by selling natural gas at subsidised rates.

In a first, the road transport ministry is firming up plans to upgrade around 10,000 km of national highways across the country in two years.

Social activists have urged the State government to order a detailed investigation into the “vanishing hills and hillocks and pristine waterbodies” of Salem district, which fall prey to mindless and illegal mining for commercial purposes.

Saying that the loss to the State exchequer would run to Rs.1000 crore, members of ‘Speak Out Salem,’ a forum that highlights public interest issues, has blamed the contractors and subcontractors of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for “swallowing up” many a hillock that once dotted the district’s skyline and for destroying its lakes, the livelihood resources of farmers and villagers.

In a bid to provide much-needed impetus to the fund-starved highways sector, the road transport ministry is looking at increasing road projects to be awarded through Engineering Procurement Contrac

With many highway projects finding it difficult to reach financial closure, the government is seeking a review of guidelines for lending to such projects.