The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) hopes to exceed its annual target of 7,300 km road projects by 13 per cent to 9,000 km for the current financial year — almost double of what it had awarded last year.
Two recent bids opened by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have revived an age-old debate — do bidders sometimes bid irrational amounts to win the contract?
The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has refuted recent claims made by Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma that land issues pertaining to the two mega road projects in the State have been resolved.
Till now, funding from the World Bank for the National Highway Development Project has been confined to EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) projects costing over Rs 4,000 crore. In an EPC project, the government gives a contract for road construction on an outright payment to whoever quotes least cost.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written a letter to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways C.P Joshi urging for an early decision on handing over to the State Government the Nation
GVK Power and Infrastructure would commence work on its 690 MW hydro-electric power project at Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir by December 2011, a company official has said.
At a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today under passed a resolution to be sent to the Central Government urging it to hand over ten National Highways passing throug
NHAI is using the fabric in several projects for the last seven years
Dark-coloured, netted fabrics draped on concrete panels are all over the vertical structures coming up on the 42.6 km stretch from Chengapalli to Neelambur. Coimbatore is not only seeing the much-needed widening (six-lane) of NH 47 from Chengapalli to Neelambur but also modern materials used in the construction. “Geo synthetic reinforcement fabrics” are used to reinforce the earth walls in this project.
