About 110 km southwest of Ahmedabad, 35 km from the Indus Valley Civilization site of Lothal, and some 200 km from the Pipavav Port in Bhavnagar, on the dusty bare landscape of Dholera, an occasional backhoe or a road roller are signs of activity in Gujarat’s first Special Investment Region (SIR) carved out from villages […]
Category: Roads
Coastal road to be named after Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj
The under-construction Mumbai Coastal Road will be named after Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and a statue of the 16th-century Maratha warrior will be constructed on the coastal highway, said Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday. Meanwhile, in a tweet, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis shared a letter he had written to the chief minister on March […]
PWD to install height barriers at entry points of Barapullah elevated corridor in Delhi
The public works department (PWD) is planning to install height barriers at all entry points of the Barapullah elevated corridor in Delhi to restrict the entry of heavy vehicles such as trucks, lorries and buses, officials said. The decision to put the barriers was taken following a written request by the Delhi Traffic Police informing […]
Acquire land for road projects in time-bound manner: CM to officials
Stating that land acquisition and forest department’s approval for several road projects in the state are pending, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Tuesday directed the officials concerned to acquire land for the projects in a time-bound manner. Shinde, along with Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, held a review of all the […]
Projects worth Rs 1,654 cr to be inaugurated tomorrow
During his visit to Gujarat on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate projects worth Rs 1,654 crore under the urban development department, including the Mumatpura flyover, a part of whose carriageway deck had collapsed during a stress test in December 2021. The Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) is currently conducting a load test on […]
New digital dashboard by BMC to provide real-time updates on roadworks in Mumbai
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday announced that a digital dashboard will be created, to provide people with all information related to roadworks in the city. This will ensure adequate transparency in road concretisation work, and maintain smooth coordination between different civic departments, said officials. At present, the Storm Water Drains (SWD) department maintains […]
Aaditya Thackeray meets Governor, seeks probe into road projects scam
Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday met Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bias in Mumbai and sought an inquiry into the alleged scam in the Rs 6,080 crore Cement Concrete (CC) road works project undertaken by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and the procurement of street furniture for Rs 263 crore by the agency for beautification of the […]
Hatkeshwar bridge damage: 4 directors of AEIPL move Gujarat High Court with anticipatory bail pleas, blame faulty design
The Gujarat High Court reserved the order on the anticipatory bail pleas of the four directors of Ajay Engi-Infrastructure Private Ltd (AEIPL), which was awarded the tender and contract for the Hatkeshwar bridge that began to break within four years of its inauguration. AEIPL chairman Ramesh Patel, and his sons Kalpesh and Chirag and Rasikbhai […]
Activists file PIL, want committee to oversee reports on state of roads
Raising the safety of citizens due to poor management of roads by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), civic activists Qaneez Sukhrani and Pushkar Kulkarni have filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court seeking directions to constitute a high level committee to oversee the implementation of various reports on road infrastructure for city. […]
Pakistan, China reiterate to continue cooperation on CPEC
A day after India criticised the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China on Saturday expressed their firm commitment to continue their cooperation on the multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects. This came at the 4th edition of the Pakistan-China Strategic Dialogue in Islamabad co-chaired by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and his […]
Road map to road app: People should know who did what, who spent their funds, says mayor
When potholes appear, people should know who made those roads with their money. This idea has been floated by Chandigarh Mayor Anup Gupta in an effort to seek transparency in road recarpeting by feeding in a mobile app the name of the sub-divisional engineer, junior engineer concerned along with the contractor and completion details of […]
Delhi airport bouncing back from Covid: Uptick in passenger load by 95%
Post Covid, the Delhi International Airport has seen a 95% uptick in passenger load — from 5.02 lakh in March 2021 to 9.83 lakh in March 2022 — according to data from officials. Amid expansion for the G-20 Summit and other redevelopment plans, officials said the airport is expected to be able to handle over […]