New Delhi The Planning Commission has decided to appoint consultants to ensure that draft concession agreements on national highway projects are technically sound.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation plans to demolish Ernakulam North overbridge soon
KOCHI: The State Government's delay in sanctioning funds and in approving the scheme mooted by the Corporation of Kochi to hasten land acquisition, is stifling four-laning of two crucial road corridors in Kochi

JAIPUR: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued notices to property owners on National Highway 8 (Jaipur- Ajmer) for encroaching the national highway land. An official at NHAI said, "We are identifying the properties which are being illegally constructed on NH-8 land.

It is being executed through Special Purpose Vehicle. It would be completed within 24 months from the date of commencement. No toll will be collected on this road

CHENNAI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued work orders for the commencement of the Ennore-Manali Road Improvement Project (EMRIP).

In a bid to introduce greater transparency in the road sector, the transport ministry on Tuesday said it has fixed the monthly monitorable targets for road building and will bid out all projects beginning August through the e-tendering process.

Meticulous C P Joshi is triggering comparisons with his predecessor, Kamal Nath, a man of the world.
Early morning last Friday, in a post timed at 7.44 am, one Ramesh Jain wrote a rant against overloading.

Greater Noida: The widening of GT Road NH-91, a project of six-lane highway from Ghaziabad to Aligarh via Bulandshahr, will cost the felling of shady trees planted on the both sides of the road at the time of Emperor Sher Shah Suri.

About 19,000 trees will be cut for the purpose.

Around 25,000 to 30,000 trees have already been felled to widen the road.

The government is set to ask private developers building national highways under the public private partnership (PPP) mode to install weigh bridges at every entry and exit point of highways.

To check the wear and tear of highways, the government is planning to amend the model concession agreement for PPP in road construction, making it compulsory for all developers to set up weigh bridges on hi

Hazaribagh, April 10: The desiltation work at Hazaribagh lake has come to a halt with the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) officials asking the district officials to immediately clear the mud, which has accumulated as a result of digging a small portion of the water body.

The NTPC had come forward to clean the lake after the Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) backed out.

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