Category: Roads

The Kalighat bridge that connects Alipore and Kalighat over the Tolly’s Nullah has to be demolished, a government-appointed committee running a health check on bridges and flyovers has recommended. The reason: the structure has suffered irreparable damage. The committee, along with engineers of the urban development department, identified the 56-year-old bridge as the only one […]

The long-delayed widening and repair work on NH12 on the Farakka-Malda has received a further blow. Around 1,300 workers, skilled and unskilled, have stopped work since May 17 over unpaid salaries, even as the bitumen cover on 30km stretch of the highway has peeled off, baring craters and potholes that make it a nightmare ride. […]

Border Roads Organisation will recruit nearly 12,000 workers from Jharkhand and the first batch of 1,500 will leave Dumka on Friday. “The first train carrying 1,500 labourers from Santhal Pargana will leave Dumka on June 12,” Dumka deputy commissioner Rajeshwari B. informed in a tweet on Tuesday evening, adding that a meeting was held and […]

Larsen and Toubro (L&T) will build the new Tallah bridge, which could be ready for use by February 2022 if everything moves according to plan, officials of the public works department said on Wednesday. The private infrastructure company was given the contract to build the bridge on June 5, the day it signed an agreement […]

Debt-laden IL&FS on Monday said it has completed the sale of its 50 per cent stake in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) to the Gujarat government, generating over Rs 32 crore for its equity value and also reducing its consolidated debt by more than Rs 1,200 crore. The stake in GIFT City was bought […]

The first few phases of the nationwide lockdown had brought traffic to a screeching halt but the advantage of an empty NH12 was not used by its keeper to treat the battered and bruised surface of the highway that remained without repairs for years. The highway connects Bakkhali down in south to Dalkhola up in […]

The Hindu Right wing and pro-Kannada organisations are engaged in a battle over naming flyovers in BJP-ruled Karnataka. While the Hindutva brigade wanted two flyovers, one each in Bangalore and Mangalore, named after their ideologue V.D. Savarkar, the pro-Kannada organisations and the Opposition parties have questioned the logic to ignore so many freedom fighters, social […]

When the world is busy grappling with the economic damage that the Covid-19 pandemic is inflicting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that this is an opportunity to build a new India which is more self-reliant, self-assured and a global force to reckon with. The Prime Minister has outlined a 4-L strategy which involves addressing the […]

The pitiable state of two inter-state national highways of Barak Valley has created heavy chagrin among the people. The Assam-Mizoram connecting NH 6 from Dhaleswar (Assam) to Bairabi (Mizoram) via Hailakandi district has not been repaired for the last seven years. AIUDF Katlicherra MLA Suzam Uddin Laskar on Saturday alleged that despite repeated reminders, no […]

Bijon Setu and the Chetla bridge, both in south Calcutta, will remain closed to traffic between Thursday and Sunday as part of a health check, CMDA officials said on Tuesday. The 550m-long Bijon Setu connects Kasba with Gariahat and is used by commuters headed to the city from eastern fringes. Chetla Bridge, about 450m-long, connects […]

Notwithstanding the ongoing lockdown which has mostly restricted the movement of vehicles to essential commodities only, the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway has become a nightmare for the commuters due to the pathetic condition of the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country. The people living along the strategic highway, especially in […]

The lockdown induced by the Covid-19 pandemic has stalled the upgrade of three sluice gates on the Kangsabati river in East Midnapore district, triggering fears that over 30 villages will be flooded in the monsoon this year also. The irrigation department had started the re-construction of the sluice gates at Garpurshottam, Radhabon and Gopalhazra in […]