Differences between the Finance and Transport departments of the UT Administration have held up three major projects of public transport.

The three projects

The High Court on Monday directed the government to file its reply to a petition challenging the lifting of ban on movement of vehicles on Bandipur-Sultan Batheri road.

Deputy Commissioner of Chamarajnagar had ordered ban on movement of vehicles on June 3, and the order was withdrawn on June 10, 2009.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: On the highway leading south from Thiruvananthapuram city, it

New Delhi: Road transport and highways ministry has designed a draft model concession agreement (MCA) for the four-laning of national highways on build-operate-transfer (BOT) annuity mode. The move comes on the back of claims by ministry officials that the current MCA governing national highways needs to be tweaked for BOT annuity projects even as it is suitable for BOT toll projects.

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Shortage of credit in the market and undue interference from the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has had a negative impact on the road development in the country with a number of projects being stalled and some being delayed much beyond the target.