The Prime Minister has constituted a new committee to suggest fast-track mechanisms for the resolution of inter-ministerial issues in road and highway projects that do not require the approval of the Cabinet Committee of Infrastructure.

Reviewing the government

Shortage of Bajri, Sand

All major road and other construction projects, including the four-laning of the Zirakpur-Kalka highway, have come to a halt. Not for the shortage of funds, but for the unavailability of materials like stones and bajri.

In a victory for environmentalists, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, reaffirmed a lower-court decision to reinstate a Clinton-era rule that substantially limited development of roads on national forest lands.

Traffic congestion on city roads may soon become a thing of the past, if Tata Steel

TENGA VALLEY, (Arunachal Pradesh), Aug 3

MUMBAI: Commuters who were looking forward to the Bus Rapid Transit System(BRTS) slated to start operating on the two main highways in the city, will have to wait for eight to 10 more months till the flyovers over the two roads are ready.

THE government will award road projects worth Rs 2,00,000 crore in the next two years, road transport & highways minister Kamal Nath said.

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath today said road projects worth Rs 2 lakh crore would be awarded in the next two years.

May 19, 2009. Parliament