CUTTACK: The sudden emergence of speed breakers and rumblers on the Cuttack-Chandbali state highway in the last week of December, causing a number of mishaps on the busy road, has got the Roads and Buildings department in a tizzy.
Category: Roads
Road widening works peak up pace as per Guntur Municipal Corporation
GUNTUR: Guntur Municipal Corporation has taken up road widening works on five major roads in the city to reduce traffic congestion. With this, the commuters are breathing a sigh of relief as the long pending works will gain pace.
‘BRO’ connects Arunachal’s Strategic Maza area along LAC
NEW DELHI: Amidst the prevailing tension along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has connected another important area after Yangtse. The BRO personnel and Machinery worked round the clock through heavy rains, tough terrain and dangerous working conditions to achieve this feat on Wednesday.
Hike in road mishaps worries cops
VIJAYAWADA: The overall rate of crime reported in the NTR district commissionrate has seen a decline by 10.7 per cent, with 15,329 cases including both IPC and Special Local Laws (SLL) in 2022 against 17,174 cases in 2021, stated the NTR district police commissioner Kanthi Rana Tata. Rana attributed the efforts of city police in […]
Potholes, floods, waste: No respite for citizens in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, the country’s IT capital, the city which generates the largest amount of revenue for the state government and contributes the lion’s share to the national economy, continues to face problems with basic facilities — good roads, clean water bodies, well-protected lung spaces and clean air.
Land acquisition for crucial link road in Kempegowda Layout in Bengaluru finally complete
BENGALURU: The road connectivity between Mysuru Road and Magadi Road via the Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Layout (NPKL) is set to be bolstered as the long-pending acquisition of 68 acres of land by BDA has been finally completed.
Coimbatore: 35% work to widen Sungam bypass road over, 56 trees to be felled
COIMBATORE: The State Highways department and Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) have completed around 35% of the extension works of the Valankulam road (Sungam Bypass road) in Coimbatore.
Work on Mukkola-Karode NH-66 bypass to begin in two days: NHAI
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The work on the 16.3km Mukkola-Karode NH-66 bypass is set to resume this week as L&T Constructions, the contractor, has obtained a stay order from the High Court for the stop memo issued on the project by the Geology and Mining Department. The memo was issued stating that the contractor excavated soil from an […]
Delay in Uppal corridor leaves traffic crawling in Telangana
HYDERABAD: Five years on, the Uppal elevated corridor, which is touted to be the second longest flyover in the State, is still incomplete, causing severe inconvenience to locals and commuters from other districts entering the city through Uppal. Everyday commuters coming from Warangal and Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri by buses and cars are put to great inconvenience from […]
GHMC readies SNDP Phase-II proposals in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: With many of the Strategic Nala Development Programme (SNDP) Phase-I works in various stages of completion, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has set in motion plans to take up Phase-II works to cover the remaining colonies and areas that are at risk of inundation whenever it rains heavily.
51 per cent govt projects face delay, cost escalates by 22 per cent
NEW DELHI: Over 51% of government projects costing Rs 150 crore and above are seeing delays in completion as on December 1, 2022, government data shows. In November 2020, 32% of the projects showed delays in completion and in March 2018, only 19% projects were delayed.
Motorists irked as two flyover projects in Coimbatore going at snail’s pace
COIMBATORE: The snail pace of the Periyanaickenpalayam & GN Mills flyover construction works on the Mettupalayam Road carried out by the National Highways officials have further pushed the inauguration date of the flyovers to March 2023. Officials begin paving roads on alternate routes to reduce traffic congestion.