NIIF-backed EverSource Capital is set to take over IL&FS Environmental Infrastructure & Services Limited (IEISL) and its subsidiaries, as the former has emerged the highest bidder for them. The deal is likely to reduce the debt of IL&FS Group by close to Rs 1,500 crore, which is the combined debt of entities under IL&FS’ environment […]
Category: Roads
Panchkula brings up forgotten plan of 2007: Barwala, 9 other villages to be developed into a township
Talk of development of the Barwala area of Panchkula which had been listed by HUDA (now HSVP) as one of the areas to be developed as Panchkula extension back in 2007, have resurfaced in the district. A meeting in this regard was held between a District Level Committee and District Town and Planning Committee recently. […]
In a first, Samruddhi expressway to have 10 overpasses as wildlife mitigation structures
THE SAMRUDDHI Mahamarg (expressway) connecting Nagpur and Mumbai will include 10 overpasses, a first in the country, among other wildlife mitigation structures taken up by the project, as per recommendations by the state Wildlife Board committee set up by the government. The 750-km expressway is the first linear project in India to incorporate wildlife mitigation […]
Days ahead of monsoon, only 50 per cent of UT’s road gullies cleared
Residents of Chandigarh should brace for water-logging. Even as monsoon is predicted to arrive in the city on June 25, the civic body has been able to clear only 50 per cent of the road gullies. There are 30,000 road gullies in Chandigarh and municipal corporation officials said they have been able to clean only […]
Pothole complaints: BMC issues WhatsApp numbers of engineers in 24 wards
The BMC on Monday issued a list of WhatsApp contact numbers of road engineers across 24 wards, where citizens can submit complaints against potholes. The civic body has issued these contacts every monsoon for the past three years based on a directive from the Bombay High Court. Citizens can click photographs of potholes in their […]
Goa considers dropping China firm from Rs 1,400-crore bridge project
The Goa government is considering dropping a Chinese consultancy firm from a Rs 1,400 crore eight-lane bridge construction project across the Zuari river in south Goa, officials said on Monday. The bridge — a prestige project for the BJP-led government — is slated to be named after late chief minister Manohar Parrikar. It is being […]
Ludhiana-Raikot road is now ‘Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha Marg’
The Punjab Public Works Department (PWD) and School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla inaugurated the Ludhiana-Raikot road Wednesday which has been rechristened as ‘Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha Marg’. This 38-km road starts from Bhai Wala Chowk in Ludhiana city and ends at Raikot town via Pakhowal. Singla said that the road passes through village Sarabha, […]
Mumbai-Pune Expressway: IRB Infra pays first instalment of Rs 6,500 crore to MSRDC
IRB MP Expressway Private Limited, a Special Purpose Vehicle of IRB Infrastructure Developers Limited, has obtained the financial closure for the Mumbai-Pune Expressway – its first Toll-Operate-Transfer (TOT) project. The company on Thursday made the payment of the first tranche of Rs 6,500 crore as an upfront sub-concession fee to the Maharashtra State Road Development […]
17 yrs after Vajpayee laid foundation stone, Railways racing to ready Bihar bridge
A two-km-long railway mega bridge on river Kosi, the foundation stone of which was laid by former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee 17 years ago, may be inaugurated around his second death anniversary in poll-bound Bihar. The bridge is of strategic importance for India and seeks to provide a shorter route to the Northeast. […]
AAP demands probe into alleged National Highway land scam
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab has levelled serious allegations against the Punjab’s Congress government of a multi-crore land scam in the National Highway 105-B connecting Bathinda, Moga, Jalandhar and Jammu, alleging involvement of a Cabinet Minister and a Congress MLA. The Leader of Opposition, Harpal Cheema, has demanded a time-bound probe into the […]
2 killed as wall of flyover bridge of NH 27 collapses in Rajkot
TWO persons were killed after a section of the wall of a flyover of National Highway 27 collapsed and its debris fell on them at Aji Dam Chowkadi in Rajkot amid rain on Monday. Police said the incident took place at around 11:30 am when a section of the retaining wall of the southern approach […]
Amid fund crunch, Panchkula civic body begins remediation of legacy waste, road repair work
The Panchkula MC began some important civic work in the city, including preparation for monsoons, passing a tender for roads as well as for the bio remediation of legacy waste at the Sector 23 dumping ground. MC Commissioner Sumedha Kataraia, said that the main task remaining is to compile a list for permissions to the […]