The Himachal Pradesh Government on Friday presented a Rs 49,131-crore populist Budget for 2020-21, with renewed focus on road and air connectivity, housing for poor and scheduled castes and quality education. No new tax has been proposed in the budget which saw an increase of Rs 4,743 crore from Rs 44,388 crore in 2019-20. It […]
Category: Roads
Experts to probe incompletion of Bilaspur-Raipur road
Public Works Department Minister Tamradhwaj Sahu announced that technical experts of state will conduct a probe into incompletion of a vital road. The report will be sent to Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India, he added. “The strong worded letter will have facts and figures. Additional to it police will be continuously […]
BRO DG inspects works under Char Dham project
The director general of the Border Roads Organisation, lieutenant general Harpal Singh has directed officials to ensure that work on the ambitious Char Dham road project is completed within the given time frame with focus on quality. He said this while inspecting works being executed under the project by Project Shivalik of BRO from Rishikesh […]
CM unveils Rs 1,526-cr projects in S’garh
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated and laid foundation-stones of a total of 143 projects worth Rs 1,526 crore for Sundargarh district at the District Athletic Association ground at Sundargarh on Tuesday. The projects which were inaugurated include hostels, dining halls, libraries and classrooms in various schools under Hemgiri, Kutra block, Rajagantpur, Lepripada and Lathikata blocks. […]
NCLT approves NBCC bid for Jaypee Infratech
State-owned NBCC on Tuesday got approval from the NCLT to acquire debt-laden Jaypee Infratech through an insolvency process and complete around 20,000 pending flats over the next three and half years. In its hearing on Tuesday, the Principal bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), headed by Acting President BSV Prakash Kumar, gave a […]
PWD projects included in Budget are highest in State’s history: Dushyant
Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Saturday claimed that that many projects related to roads, flyovers and railway have been included in State’s Budget this year and such projects will be completed at high speed. Chautala said that public works projects included in the budget presented by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday […]
Bundelkhand Expressway will give momentum to UP defence corridor: Adityanath
The Bundelkhand Expressway, the foundation stone of which was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, will give momentum to the Uttar Pradesh defence corridor, Chief Minister Yodi Adityanath said in Chitrakoot. The 296-km-long Expressway to be built at a cost of Rs 15,000 crore will pass through Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot, Banda, Hamirpur and […]
PM Modi lays foundation stone of Bundelkhand Expressway
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday laid the foundation stone of the 296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway in Chitrakoot by pressing a button. To be built at a cost of Rs 14,849 crore, the expressway will pass through Chitrakoot, Banda, Hamirpur and Jalaun districts. The expressway will be supplementing the nodes of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial […]
Complete NH widening within four months: HC
Expressing dissatisfaction at the delay in widening of the national highway 58 section between Dehradun and Muzaffarnagar, the high court of Uttarakhand has given the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) a time of four months to complete the work. The division bench of chief justice Ramesh Ranganathan and justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari issued this […]
Mechanical sweeping soon to start on city roads
The air in Ranchi will soon be free of dust and pollution. Ranchiites can also look forward to some spic and span roads. Hi- tech mechanical sweeping machines are expected to make their debut on city roads in the coming month. Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) will soon start using mechanical sweeping machines to clean the […]
PM to lay foundation stone for 296-KM Bundelkhand E-way
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday lay the foundation stone for the 296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot. The expressway will be supplementing the nodes of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor announced by the government in February 2018, a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) maintained on Thursday. The Uttar Pradesh […]
Minister performs Bhumi-Pujan of roads
Minister for Urban Development and Housing Jaivardhan Singh performed Bhumi-Pujan of roads costing Rs 5 crore, Futera Lake View Road costing Rs 78 lakh, BLC Building sanctioned under the Housing Scheme costing Rs 31.22 crore and other works sanctioned under the MLA fund in Damoh. He announced Rs 6.50 crore for beautification of Bus Stand. […]