The Himachal Government would take up the tunnel project to link Kullu with Jogindernagar, cutting short the distance between two key tourist resorts by 63 km, Chief Minister PK Dhumal on Tuesday said.

K.V. Prasad

NEW DELHI: The Union Government has begun review of 70 strategically important roads along the Sino-Indian border. Their construction has been held up on account of delay in environmental clearance.

Nirbhay Kumar & Subhash Narayan
NEW DELHI

ANGUL: Coal transportation in Talcher coalfield area, which supplies coal to seven states, has been hampered due to lack of infrastructure facilities. Millions of tonnes of coal stocked at various colliery pit heads could not be evacuated due to poor and dilapidated roads, according to sources.

New Delhi: The Centre has prepared a plan to convert 6,376 km of single-lane national highways (NH) to twolanes involving an investment of over $3 billion (Rs 15,000 crore). The government is approaching the World Bank to finance this expansion, roads, transport and highways minister Kamal Nath said on Thursday.

BHUBANESWAR: Three World Bank-assisted infrastructure projects worth over Rs 400 crore have remained a non-starter even after a year of awarding of contracts due to lack of cooperation from the Government.

The World Bank sanctioned loan for widening and strengthening of three roads under the Orissa State Road Project. Tenders were invited for the three projects in January 2008.

New Delhi: The government, keen to kickstart the stalled road programme, has drawn up plans to unroll an ambitious network of expressways to boost connectivity across key states over next few years.

S. Annamalai
To evolve a process for use of waste plastic to lay roads
A Rs. 42 lakh project, to be undertaken between 2009, 2012
Cold process will be highly useful in laying roads in cold regions

An illegal make-over of the ambitious Bengaluru Mysore Corridor leaves slumdwellers on the road and the Supreme Court toothless.