The West Bengal government on Saturday revised its assessment of the damage caused by Cyclone Amphan, telling an Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) that the state had been set back by Rs 1,02,442 lakh crore. The day before, the Mamata Banerjee administration had reported losses worth Rs 80,000 crore. The Centre’s representatives, who had arrived in […]
Category: Roads
Auditor may not have raised red flags at IL&FS behest: forensic report
Barely three months before IL&FS Group companies ran into trouble with the first default on August 28, 2018, SRBC & Co LLC (an arm of Ernst and Young), auditor to IL&FS Transportation Networks India Limited (ITNL), decided to exclude notes on the company’s ability to continue operations indefinitely, which in accounting language is referred to […]
Bridge washes away in flood, remote Arunachal district near China border cut-off
Road connectivity to the remote Shi-Yomi district in Arunachal Pradesh snapped after a bridge was washed away in the floods triggered by incessant rains over the last couple of days, officials said on Friday. Shi-Yomi district, bordering China, was cut-off from the rest of the country after the RCC bridge (reinforced cement concrete) near Yapik […]
Gujarat: After trying for 46 years, Tuwa villagers to finally get road, water facilities
A neighbhourhood in Tuwa village of Panchmahals district comprising 50 families is all set to get roads, an anganwadi cenre and water facilities for the very first time in 46 years. After repeated applications, representations and memorandums by the villagers over the years, a resolution was finally passed by the zilla panchayat to end their […]
MLA urges proper planning before demolition of flyovers
BJP MLA from Shivajinagar Siddharth Shirole said Wednesday that local residents and legislators are concerned about the planned demolition of two flyovers on Ganeshkhind Road near Savitribai Phule Pune University as it will likely cause traffic snarls. The state government on Tuesday gave in-principle approval for the demolition of the two flyovers to make way […]
India builds road north of Ladakh lake, China warns of ‘necessary counter-measures’
TWO ROUNDS of talks between Indian and Chinese local military commanders at Pangong Tso, where troops of the two sides came to blows two weeks ago, remained inconclusive Tuesday and Beijing warned of “necessary counter-measures”. It claimed the Indian Army had “entered Chinese soil on the Baijing and Lujin duan section of the Sino-Indian border, […]
SC to Centre: intervene in road closure between Kasaragod, Mangaluru
Batting for an amicable settlement of the row between Karnataka and Kerala over the closure of roads linking Kasaragod district to Mangaluru, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to discuss the matter with the states and formulate parameters for passage of patients for urgent medical treatment. “We direct the Union of India and […]
MMRDA to get 2.4 acres from mangrove cell for Airoli-Thane- Belapur elevated road
Nearly acres belonging to the state’s mangrove cell in Thane district will be handed over to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for the Airoli-Thane- Belapur elevated road. The 33.8 km-long corridor is being constructed from Airoli to Katai Naka, Dombivali. About 30 per cent of the work has been completed and the authority […]
BMC finalises contractor to reconstruct ‘extremely dangerous’ Ghatkopar bridge
Seven months after the dilapidated Laxmi Baug nulla bridge in Ghatkopar was shut, the BMC has finalised a contractor for its reconstruction. In May, the civic body had closed the bridge following a structural audit report that identified it as one of the 29 bridges in the city that were in “extremely dangerous” condition. A […]
Rs 2,000-crore road work pending, corporators blame BMC commissioner
WITH HUNDREDS of road repair tenders yet to be finalised following a deadlock over the new proposed payment system for contractors, corporators on Friday alleged that the civic administration was not taking measures to execute projects worth Rs 2,000 crore. Samajwadi Party group leader Rais Shaikh raised the issue in the BMC Standing Committee, alleging […]
Gurgaon: One side of Hero Honda flyover to stay shut till December 1
One side of the Hero Honda Flyover in Gurgaon will remain closed till December 1, with officials carrying out “deck slab restoration” work along the stretch. In an order issued regarding this, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Himanshu Garg stated, “One side of the main carriageway of Hero Honda Flyover on NH-48 in the […]
Chandigarh: Administration gives ‘cash-strapped’ MC Rs15 crore for development, but with a caveat
Providing Rs 15 crore aid to the “cash-starved” municipal corporation for development works, the Chandigarh administration also told the civic body on Wednesday that if it cannot maintain the roads, their charge should be handed over to the administration. To ensure that the funds are not misused, the UT Administration also attached a caveat that […]