Minister for Road Transport and Highways Kamal Nath took a dig at the Plan panel yet again a week ago. And this time it was in the presence of Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia and his infrastructure advisor Gajendra Haldea.
Shimla: Environmentalists fear that cutting of slopes for four-laning of the Shimla-Parwanoo section of the National Highway-22 will destabilise the fragile mountain ranges, making the stretch prone to landslides.
Malda, June 15: The widening of NH34 in Malda district has been stopped after villagers protested the acquisition of land by the National Highways Authority of India.
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways sanctioned five new national highways for Himachal on Tuesday. The highways will be upgraded out of the existing routes. The ministry also agreed to fund the 1.7-kilometre Swarghat tunnel project on the Chandigarh-Manali road.
KOCHI: Opposing the Centre's move to go ahead with 45-metre-wide highways in Kerala, an affected person, T N Prasannakumar has said the State Government had already sacrificed much for the development of roads in the past and the plans to acquire more land is not at all justifiable.
Kalpana Jain & Kirtika Suneja / New Delhi May 5, 2010, 1:18 IST
In-principle green approvals scrapped.
In a decision that will help streamline clearance procedures, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has decided to reconstitute the Expert Appraisal Committees (EACs), while stopping the practice of giving
In order to decongest the Pinjore-Kalka highway, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) will build a 7.3 kilometre long Pinjore bypass connecting Surajpur (a few kilometres before Pinjore) to Baddi.
Faced with stiff opposition towards highway widening and BOT-based road development, an all-party meeting on Tuesday decided to temporarily discontinue land acquisition for the four-laning of the national highway in Kerala.
