Category: Roads

A fallen bridge was bad enough. Another on the verge of collapse has made things worse. The collapse of Majerhat bridge will complete a year on Wednesday. The Chetla Lockgate bridge — one of the alternative routes for motorists — has been shut down since August 26 after a safety audit. The closure has led […]

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday met the representatives of the infrastructure sector, which is critical for economic growth and job creation, amid a buzz that the government was planning to come out with another round of measures to boost the economy, which grew just 5 per cent in the first quarter of the current […]

Bengal chief secretary Malay De on Thursday said road upkeep should be “dynamic”, as opposed to patchwork repairs carried out as a knee-jerk reaction once a stretch becomes riddled with potholes. “Bad roads develop over time and there are clear-cut indicators, like stone chips loosening out on the surface, before the potholes form and grow. […]

Potholes dot several roads in Salt Lake, including the arterial First Avenue and Second Avenue, posing risks to pedestrians and motorists alike. Repairs are yet to begin even as the craters grow bigger and deeper with every shower. Sunil Chakraborty, a resident of Baisakhi, said the blacktop on the road in front of his house […]

The bridge over Harmu rivulet connecting Harmu Housing Colony with Vidyanagar residential locality, built at a cost of Rs 2.85 crore, is lying almost unused for over the past two-and-a-half years as there is no concrete approach road from Vidyanagar. A visit on Saturday afternoon to the site of the bridge, a 90-metre-long and 10-metre-wide […]

Traffic police have drawn up a detailed diversion plan for three days this week when Aurobindo Setu will be closed to traffic. Starting 11.30pm on August 22, all Sovabazar-bound small vehicles and autorickshaws going towards the Khanna crossing would be diverted from the eastern end of Aurobindo Setu — which connects Ultadanga and Gouribari in […]

The Enforcement Directorate has filed its first charge sheet in the IL&FS case even as it has attached assets worth about Rs 570 crore, officials said on Saturday. A prosecution complaint or chargesheet has been filed under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before a special court in Mumbai on Friday. […]

The Sealdah flyover was shut down to traffic for four days from 6pm on Thursday to facilitate a safety audit and repairs on the structure. Engineers of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), that maintains the flyover, went to the structure and started inspection on Thursday evening. An engineer said that the flyover would be […]

Traffic was thrown out of gear in and around Sealdah on Friday, the only working day in the four-day period when the flyover will remain shut to facilitate its safety audit and load test. An engineer of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) that maintains the structure said that it would be closed to traffic […]

The Enforcement Directorate has filed its first charge sheet in the IL&FS case even as it has attached assets worth about Rs 570 crore, officials said on Saturday. A prosecution complaint or chargesheet has been filed under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before a special court in Mumbai on Friday. […]

A stretch of Diamond Harbour Road caved in barely 10m from the Hooghly in Diamond Harbour on Thursday morning, effectively cutting off a large part of South 24-Parganas from Calcutta and casting a cloud on weekend travel plans of many. The road was sliced off like a cake, a sight more associated with calamities such […]

The National Company Law Tribunal on Thursday (NCLT) stayed its own order allowing the government to prosecute the three partners of Deloitte and BSR Associates for their alleged culpability in the IL&FS fraud case — following a plea to allow them to appeal at the appellate tribunal. Staying its own order of July 18, the […]