Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Vidarbha's star tourist attraction, is buzzing with activity. Inside the 625.40 sq km reserve, excavators are hard at work, digging up earth for an ambitious road-building project. Strips of forest, several metres wide, have been cleared alongside existing roads.

Monsoon is not far away. According to meteorological scientists it might come earlier. Heavy rain during monsoon washes away a lot of road. Moreover, the low quality roads cannot stand even light rains. Condition of roads is not that good in the State. Several roads start becoming worn out soon after their construction. Though all the roads are not of low quality work. It is about those roads which are of low quality. Several roads which connect different cities are not good which were constructed before some days. Pot holes could be seen in these roads at various places.

The stretch of the Indo-Bangla border road project executed by the State PWD would be completed by May 15, said State Assembly' Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Brindaban Goswami quoting the PWD authorities, here on Wednesday. The State PWD is executing the project in a stretch of 206 km. However, six kilometres of this stretch have been eroded by the Brahmaputra and the Gadadhar rivers. The PWD has so far completed execution of the project in a 191 km stretch, Goswami said while addressing the media persons here.

At a district-level meeting of officials and representatives of different departments presided over by Gautam Ganguly, Deputy Commissioner, Cachar, at the Conference Hall, implementation of various schemes and projects came up for threadbare discussion. It was made known that the Agriculture Department would make available power pumps to the beneficiaries at 50 per cent subsidised rate.

Nearly 3,000 families will be displaced from their homes in two weeks because of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation's Rs 600- crore road widening scheme. GHMC has decided to develop 42 main routes in 12 surrounding municipalities, which were merged with the core city to form Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

Without commensurate improvement in road conditions, parking lots coupled with a 13 times increase in the number of vehicles since 1982, Jammu region has entered into "traffic danger zone." About 2000 to 2500 vehicles are being added in district every month.

A grade separator at the intersection of G.T. Road and Road No.56 near Apsara border and another at T-junction near Anand Vihar Inter-State Bus Terminus in the Capital's trans-Yamuna area are among six new projects worth Rs.909 crore that have been approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee of the Delhi Government. Finance Minister A. K. Walia, who presided over the Committee meeting, said the Department of Finance had given its nod for the infrastructure development projects to ensure a smooth flow of traffic on the roads.

The responsibility of the maintenance of roads constructed under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), once their five-year contractual period is over, is an issue which has "concerned" a parliamentary committee. The parliamentary standing committee on rural development which has submitted its report on demand for grants(2008-09) during the on going Budget Session in Lok Sabha, has noted that all roads constructed under PMGSY are covered by five-year maintenance contracts.