Category: Roads

To decongest traffic, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has suggested construction of underpasses and flyovers at appropriate places in the city. In its report on demands for grants (2023-24) tabled in the Lok Sabha recently, the committee has recommended that the UT Administration may carry out geometric improvements, construct new underpasses and flyovers […]

The 6.5 km-long Z-Morh tunnel on the Srinagar-Leh highway will be inaugurated next month while work on Asia’s longest tunnel at Zojila is likely to be completed in 2024, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. Addressing Assocham’s Annual Day 2023, Gadkari further said that his ministry is also building 9 tunnels between Jammu and […]

Toll road operators are likely to log in lower top line growth at 9-11 per cent in 2023-24 compared to a robust 16-18 per cent rise in revenue this fiscal, says a report. In a report on Tuesday, rating agency Crisil said the jump of 16-18 per cent in revenue this fiscal will be on […]

Despite inclement weather conditions, the Border Roads Oganisation (BRO) restored the 427-km long Manali-Leh highway to traffic via the Baralacha Pass today. A BRO convoy travelled from the Manali side towards Leh via the Baralacha Pass. Last year, the BRO had restored this highway to traffic on March 26. However, the Lahaul and Spiti district […]

After laying the foundation stone of a skywalk project, costing Rs 60 crore, outside Gurdwara Shaheedan Sahib here, Minister of Local Government Inderbir Singh Nijjar said once this project was complete, it would bring relief to ‘sangat’ coming for darshan of Shaheedan Sahib. The ‘sangat’ has to cross the road to go to the gurdwara, […]

In order to check road mishaps, road crash fatalities and injuries through improved road safety management and institutional reform in Nurpur police district, a World Bank-funded ambitious Road Safety Enforcement Project (RSEP) has been approved. The project will focus on strengthening and streamlining the management capabilities for road safety in this police district with inter-state […]

A team of officials of the district administration and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) demolished 14 buildings along the NH-3 between Jhiri and Deodhar in Kullu district today. The administration and the NHAI had identified 21 buildings along the highway for which the latter had already paid full compensation, but the occupants/owners had […]

The recently built double-laned Kullu-Manali National Highway (NH-3) has become a death trap for commuters with many fatal accidents reported here. Around 72 road accidents have taken place in the past year under the Kullu police station and of these, 55 accidents took place on the national highway. The speed of vehicles is becoming the […]

Lahaul and Spiti SP Manav Verma on Saturday said after the restoration of traffic on the Manali-Leh highway for traffic by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), queries by tourists as well as local residents of Leh have increased about the opening of this highway to civilian traffic. Yesterday, the BRO had restored this highway to […]

While they talk a lot about road safety, but the Gurugram authorities continue to turn a blind eye towards poor condition of roads. The main Gadoli road leading to the KMP has been damaged for a long time. There are crater size potholes on roads, which get filled with rainwater after every downpour. Many two-wheeler […]

Hisar: The police registered a case against five persons for vandalising the inauguration stone laid of a newly constructed road in Dhani Sanchla village in Fatehabad district today. Development and Panchayat Minister Devender Babli had inaugurated the road a few days ago..

The Siund-Neuli road in the Sainj valley of Kullu district has been damaged near Lalmata. Due to the lack of a culvert, the drain water flows on the road. People of five panchayats travel through this road, which is dotted with potholes. The Public Works Department should construct a culvert on this road near Lalmata […]