New Delhi Private road developers have asked the government to streamline the functioning of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the nodal agency for award of highway building contracts, to ensure timely implementation of projects.
House committee, forest and power departments hold back permissions, delaying the 800 crore PM-gifted project
PANJIM: A Rs 800 crore national highway (NH) widening project, gifted to Goa by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2007, has gone off course.
The four-laning of the Panjim-Anmod national highway 4A has hit a road block because the House committee hasn
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week asked road transport and highways minister CP Joshi to expedite award of highway projects to achieve the 20-km-a-day road construction target as soon as possible. However, Joshi is reported to have said the target would be met only by 2014.
With the Prime Minister stressing on the importance of improving connectivity in extremist-affected areas, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has drawn out a plan to invest Rs 10,000 crore on building four-lane highways in J&K.
New Delhi Road minister CP Joshi said on Thursday that the target of building 20 km national highways a day would become a reality only by 2014. Joshi disclosed this a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the road ministry to remove all bottlenecks to achieve that goal.
The 20-km milestone was set by Joshi's predecessor Kamal Nath in 2009.
To bridge the infrastructure deficit in both quality and quantity, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the road transport and highways ministry and NHAI to expedite the awarding of projects.
New Delhi Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet road transport and highway minister CP Joshi on Wednesday as the economist turned head-of-state makes a first-hand assessment of the pace of the nation's infrastructure development.
After assuming charge of the ministry in January this year, Joshi had said his main focus would be on quality of construction and not quantity.
COIMBATORE: Public consultation meetings will be held at Udumalpet and Pollachi on June 4 to get feedback on the proposed four-lane work on National Highway 209 from Dindigul to Coimbatore.
Project Director of National Highways Authority of India-Coimbatore P. Manivannan told The Hindu on Friday that the meeting would be held at 10 a.m.
