Farmers weren’t the only ones feeling happy and relieved on Thursday to hear the Samyukta Kisan Morcha announce that the yearlong agitation against the farm laws has been called off and protest sites will be vacated, the latest by December 12. Commuters too were a much relieved lot as finally, a year of harrowing snarls […]
Category: Roads
Punjab govt approves 4-laning of Patiala-Sirhind road
The Punjab government has approved the four-laning of Mata Gujri Marg, also known as the killer stretch, from Patiala to Sirhind. The total stretch of 29km will be widened at a cost of ₹119.6 crores. State public works department minister Vijay Inder Singla said the work on the 29km stretch, to be widened at a […]
Environment ministry denies NOC to Kanpur Lucknow expressway
The Kanpur-Lucknow expressway has hit a major roadblock as the ministry of environment, forest and climate change has not issued the mandatory no objection certificate (NOC). The ministry has red flagged certain points. The project manager National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) NN Giri said efforts were underway to address the concerns of the ministry. […]
Ghaziabad traffic police start issuing e-challans for violations on expressways
Officials from the Ghaziabad traffic police said on Wednesday that they have started receiving data from the systems installed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on the Delhi Meerut Expressway (DME) and the Eastern Peripheral Expressway for detecting traffic violations and have started issuing e-challans to those violating traffic rules on the expressways. […]
PM likely to inaugurate Kanpur Metro on December 28
Kanpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate the Kanpur Metro rail services on December 28, said district administration officials privy to the development, on Tuesday. IIT K convocation Additional chief secretary, UP, Avanish Awasthi has written to the Kanpur district magistrate Vishakh G, seeking details of the metro project and the IIT-Kanpur’s convocation. […]
Work on Delhi-Baghpat link to speed up: NHAI
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of the Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor (DDEC) on Saturday, officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said that developmental works will now expedite at different stretches, including a 32km link from Akshardham in New Delhi to Khekra in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat. The DDEC from the Eastern […]
CMRS to conduct final inspection of Pune Metro’s priority stretches in December
The commissioner of metro railway safety (CMRS), Shailesh Kumar Pathak has scheduled a visit to Pune in December to inspect The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited’s (Maha Metro) Pune metro project. The final inspection of the two priority stretches- Vanaz to Garware college and Pimpri-Chinchwad to Dapodi will be done before the commencement of the […]
DMRC installs 14 anti-smog guns at its construction sites
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has installed 14 anti-smog guns (ASG) at 12 of its construction sites in a bid to reduce pollution from the areas. Anuj Dayal, executive director, corporate communications, DMRC, said, “These state-of-the-art ASGs are capable of spraying fine mist up to 100 metres. One ASG is considered adequate for covering an […]
Toll tax on Delhi-Meerut Expressway may start from next week, says NHAI
The collection of toll tax on the Delhi Meerut Expressway is likely to begin next week as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has taken up the process of calculating the toll tax after its toll fee notification was recently approved by the ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH). The DME was thrown […]
Sirhaul underpass finally gets power line, lights to be turned on today: NHAI
Commuters at the Sirhaul underpass near Ambience Mall on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway will be able to use the underpass at night from Friday, after a month-long delay, as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has finally got an electricity connection there, officials said on Thursday. The underpass will be electrified from Friday after the […]
NHAI suffers toll loss of ₹2,731 crore due to farmers’ protest
State-owned National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) suffered a revenue loss of ₹2,731.32 due to the farmers’ protests in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Replying to a written question in the Rajya Sabha, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said the protest started affecting toll collection from October 2020. He […]
GLADA estate project hits roadblock: HC orders status quo on nature of property in Daad village
The Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority’s project to build an affordable housing estate in Daad village has hit a roadblock with the Punjab and Haryana high court ordering a status quo on the nature of said property, in response to a petition. The petitioner, Sukhwinder Singh of Gill village, had alleged that a few persons, […]