Category: Roads

Amidst the continuing standoff between the Indian Army and China’s PLA, the Centre on Monday reviewed ongoing road projects along the Sino-Indian border, and decided to expedite work on 32 of them, officials said. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting convened by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), and attended by the Central […]

Expediting settlement of claims through conciliation, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has settled claims worth Rs 13,349 crore for Rs 3,743 crore, the Government said on Wednesday. In its endeavour for faster settlement of claims and reducing liabilities thereby, NHAI has rigorously started the process of conciliation by constituting three Conciliation Committees of […]

Punjab National Bank has provided a loan of Rs 750 crore for the Gorakhpur Link Expressway. This expressway will be linked with the Purvanchal Expressway. The PNB had earlier provided a loan of Rs 2,300 crore for the Purvanchal Expressway. The Bank of India has also provided a loan of Rs 1,000 crore for the […]

Chief Minister Hemant Soren will flag off a special train carrying 1,500 workers to be engaged in road construction works in the bordering areas of the country by the Border Road Organisation from Dumka on Friday. In this connection, Additional Director General of Border Road Organization Anil Kumar held a meet with the CM at […]

The road connecting Umarkote and Raighar is in a pathetic condition. According to sources, the road work was implemented in 2014-2016 by contractors hired by the PWD and Rs 10.75 crore was spent for one stretch of the highway and Rs 12.30 crore for another. It is alleged that the contractors openly flouted the construction […]

Helicopters have landed heavy road-building machinery in the tough Himalayan terrain of Uttarakhand’s Johar Valley to help speed up construction of the strategic Munsiyari-Bugdiyar-Milam road near the India-China border, an official said. After several failed attempts in 2019, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) recently succeeded in carrying heavy road building equipment by helicopters to Laspa, […]

Directing expeditious time-bound completion of critical public and building work projects, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday sanctioned an additional Rs 200 crore for completing all ongoing planned roads and bridges on priority in the current and next fiscal. The Chief Minister issued the directions during a videoconference meeting of the Empowered Committee […]

The Jharkhand government and the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) have reached an agreement to ensure that labourers of the state get prescribed wages and healthcare, accident, travel allowance and housing benefits, an official statement said here on Monday. A total of 11,815 labourers from the Santhal Pargana region of the state will get an opportunity […]

Bhubaneswar MP Aparajita Sarangi on Monday laid foundation-stone for a flyover at Hanspal here. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) would construct the flyover at the accident-prone spot on NH-16 in a period of 18 months at a cost of Rs 24.63 crore. Sarangi had met Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari […]

As the Central Government on Tuesday gave its go-ahead to convert Punjab stretch of the 575-kilometre-long Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway to Greenfield project, Punjab’s all prominent political parties — Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), and the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) — engaged in the credit war patting their own backs for being the first one to raise […]

The Centre on Tuesday announced the development of a new Greenfield connectivity to Amritsar City from Nakodar via Sultanpur Lodhi, Goindwal Sahib, Khadoor Sahib as part of Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said the road from Amritsar to Gurdaspur would also be fully developed and made completely signal free. The travel […]

In order to exhibit the model stretches of National Highways as per norms, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is planning to develop 57 stretches of NH (1,735 km) across the country near each State capital. These Model Stretches will also serve as a platform to educate the highway engineers of the country, including […]