Almost 10 years after work started on the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) project, one of the biggest highway networks in the country, the 754-km stretch on Delhi-Kolkata road is almost complete, except for a railway overbridge (ROB) at Tundla in Firozabad, which would be ready in March.
To give the boost to proposed and ongoing infrastructure projects in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the state government has demanded the financial assistance of Rs20,000 crore from the central government.
Hazaribagh: Four-laning of Ranchi-Patna stretch of NH-33 has started affecting the green cover of the district.
In the last 10 days, about 600 to 700 sal trees were felled on both sides of an 8km stretch of NH-33 passing through the famous Hazaribagh wildlife sanctuary in Padma.
THE WORLD Bank has approved a $45 million technical assistance loan for the NHAI to help improve its operational efficiency. The assistance will finance actions to strengthen the institutional capacity of NHAI to efficiently manage and operate its growing programme, a bank statement said.
The Zirakpur-Parwanoo section of National Highway-22 is scheduled to be opened to traffic by January 2011, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has claimed.
Road transport and highways ministry has put the plan to create a separate authority for building expressways on the back burner fearing opposition from state governments on the issue of acquisition of land and its commercial exploitation.
We need to radically overhaul the existing, abused system of selecting concessionaires to build roads and the best way forward is to adopt bidding for present value of revenue, says Srivatsa Krishna
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Mihir Mishra / New Delhi September 22, 2010, 1:42 IST
Following protests over the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has dropped its plan to allow developers to use land along expressways for commercial purposes instead of seeking viability-gap funding (VGF).
The government had planned to build all expressways through public-private participat
