MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Monday wrote to municipal commissioner-administrator Iqbal Chahal demanding that toll collection at the city’s entry points on Western Express Highway (WEH) and Eastern Express Highway (EEH) be scrapped immediately as the BMC, and not MSRDC, maintains these roads. He also promised to stop toll charges on both […]
Category: Roads
Modi government significantly enhancing border infrastructure: Jaishankar
NEW DELHI: The Modi government has significantly enhanced border infrastructure in the last nine years, including along the frontier with China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday. In an interaction with a group of journalists, he said infrastructure push along the Northern border is going to determine India’s response to national security challenges. […]
Spending on border infrastructure up 4 fold since 2014: Jaishankar
NEW DELHI: India’s focus on improving infrastructure in the border areas with China since 2014 had meant more contestations and counter-patrolling with the Indian military now able to deploy and tackle efficiently any Chinese movement, foreign minister S Jaishankar said Monday. The minister said there had been a fourfold increase in India’s spending on border […]
Defence Minister to dedicate to nation 74 projects of BRO including air strips, tunnels: DG BRO
SAMBA: Defence minister Rajnath Singh will soon dedicate to the nation 74 projects of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) including airstrips, tunnels and bridges along the northern and western borders, BRO Director General Rajeev Chaudhry said on Monday. Lieutenant General Chaudhry was speaking after an inspection of the nearly half-a-kilometre-long fully constructed bridge on River […]
Conduct study on using legacy waste for road work: Court
Kochi: A special bench of the high court on Friday asked the state to conduct a feasibility study on using legacy waste at Brahmapuram for road construction. Issuing oral instructions while hearing online responses from LSGD secretary Sarada Muraleedharan and Ernakulam collector N S K Umesh, the bench sought details on biomining being done at […]
Damaged tyre-killer leads to road closure, traffic diversion
AHMEDABAD: The tyre-killer, intended to deter errant drivers, seems to have lost its teeth already. By Friday, just the second day since its installtion, the spiked access control system put up near the Chanakyapuri flyover on a service road leading to Damaru circle, had suffered extensive damage from heavy traffic movement. The road had to […]
Road in Chennai’s Nookampalayam hasn’t been relaid for 10 years
CHENNAI: “Rain or shine, driving on Nookampalayam road is a nightmare. When it rains, we skid off and fall. When it shines, dust from the road fills our eyes, nose and mouth, making us lose balance,” said Udhaya Vennila, a resident of the neighourhood. For more than a decade, the authorities have not laid a […]
Cantonment road works delayed due to rain, likely to take off soon
Secunderabad: Road repair and other infrastructure works are likely to take off soon in the Secunderabad Cantonment, with SCB officials clearing various proposals submitted by the engineering wing in its recent meeting. As per the plan, works to the tune of 1 to 2 crore will be taken up, including those that were delayed due […]
Graft charge in ORR deal false, will take sanyas if proved: KTR
HYDERABAD: Refuting corruption allegations in long lease of Nehru Outer Ring Road (ORR) under toll operate and transfer (TOT) basis, municipal and IT minister KT Rama Rao has said he will take political ‘sanyas’ if the allegations are proved. He dared Telangana Congress president A Revanth Reddy to prove them in court, saying the allegations […]
Junk ORR toll deal with pvt firm: Bhatti to govt in House
Hyderabad: Congress legislature party leader Bhatti Vikramarka on Saturday demanded that the state government scrap the contract with a private company for the toll collection and maintenance of the Outer Ring Road. Speaking in the assembly on Saturday, he said the bid amount of 7,380 crore for 30 years which was finalised and awarded to […]
PWD to conduct pilot projects with various private firms to maintain roads in Delhi
NEW DELHI: Following objections to its proposal to hand over the repair and maintenance of its roads, pavements and central verge to one private player for 10 years at one go, the Public Works Department has decided to check the feasibility of the plan by conducting pilot projects. Instead of one comprehensive repair and maintenance […]
2 kids drown in pit, FIR against officials of NHAI, construction co
MEERUT: An FIR under IPC Section 304-A — causing death due to negligence — has been lodged against officials of a private construction firm involved in the Delhi-Dehradun expressway works and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in Baghpat after two children drowned in an open pit dug up for the construction activities on […]