SRINAGAR: A high level meeting was held here today under the chairmanship of Revenue Minister, Raman Bhalla to review the progress of land acquisition and removal of impediments in respect of construction of roads in Ramban district under various schemes including National Highway 1-A, roads being constructed under PMGSY, BRO and Railways.
The meeting was attended by Financial Commissioner Reve
Chandy seeks landowners' cooperation
KOCHI: The State government will give Rs.25 crore of the estimated Rs.78 crore for acquiring land for widening the Padma-Pulleppady-Thammanam-NH Bypass road into a four-lane one.
This was decided at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy here on Sunday.
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.
