Category: Roads

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for national highway and Namami Gange works amounting to Rs 5,894 crore at Haridwar in Uttarakhand on Thursday. He will be accompanied by Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat. The Minister […]

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted raids on at least six locations in Mumbai and Delhi-NCR region in connection with the multi-crore IL&FS payment default crisis and seized foreign currency worth Rs 6 lakh, officials said. They said the action by the central probe agency came after it registered a criminal complaint Tuesday under […]

In order to ensure transparency and efficient functioning of its affairs, the Public Works Department (PWD) has decided to form special committees consisting of senior engineers and officers from different divisions to look after developmental works. The committee will also ensure timely delivering of services related to public sewa, road maintenance work and revamp of […]

Minister for Public Works Sajjan Singh Verma met the Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on Thursday. Verma discussed in length about the pending issues of national highways. During the deliberations, approval in principle was granted to the elevated corridor of Indore by the Union Government. Verma assured the Union Minister […]

Works Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallik in presence of local MLA Samir Ranjan Dash besides officials inaugurated a slew of projects of Rs 86.50 crore of PWD in Nimapara. At Angarpadachhak of Balanga– Nimapara road, a bridge of Rs 2.73 crore, at Budhei drainage, a bridge of Rs 5.96 crore were inaugurated while the projects for […]

Construction of Kantatoli flyover is likely to be completed by mid 2020. The work, which was supposed to commence in mid 2017 was delayed by around a year and finally started in mid 2018. Urban Development department secretary Ajoy Kumar Singh said, “The work is being done at a fast pace and it has to […]

State Road Construction department today fixed a deadline till March this year to all the contractors working on road construction projects in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas to complete the delayed work. A meeting was convened by Engineer in Chief of the department to discuss the situation of pending projects in the LWE areas, […]

About 30,000 Biju Yuva Vahini (BYV) volunteers from five districts, Ganjam, Gajapati, Boudh, Nayagarh and Kandhamal, gathered at a youth convention addressed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here on Sunday. BYV Chairman Arup Mohan Patnaik chaired the meeting. The Chief Minister felicitated Ramesh Chandra Kanhar for undertaking an awareness campaign, “Nisha ku Na”, against liquor […]

The people of Indore, Mhow, Pithampur industrial area and Rau tehsil will get a relief from daily traffic jam as the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is coming up with a six-lane flyover at Rau junction which lies on the Agra Bombay national highway and is located at western part of Indore and it […]

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Monday allowed 22 companies of crisis-hit IL&FS group, which were classified in green category based on their financial health, to service their debt obligations. Besides, a two-member bench headed by Justice S J Mukhopadhaya approved appointment of former Supreme Court judge Justice D K Jain to supervise […]

Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Tuesday asked engineers of Public Works Department (PWD) to follow the latest technique in construction of roads and adopt Chanakya Software from the coming financial year.

There are a total of 50,178 villages in the State as per the Road Core Network prepared under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and, of them, 13,255 villages have no all-weather roads. This was revealed from the information furnished by Rural Development Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh in the State Assembly in response to […]