The ambitious project of Indian Railways, Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) Project passing through Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in Mumbai has been cleared by the Supreme Court after hearing under Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
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Maharashtra mulls EPC model
The Maharashtra government considers a proposal to award the Rs 9,360-crore Mumbai Trans Harbor Link project on engineering procurement construction (EPC) model. The state government is considering EPC model after three failed attempts to award it under build-operate-transfer (BOT) route.
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Centre clears 1.1 lakh cr big ticket infra projects
In a big relief to investors, the Union Government has cleared big-ticket investment projects worth Rs 1.1 lakh crore. The projects were held up for years for want of several government clearances.
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JNPT to build liquid terminal
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is to build Rs 1,800 crore new liquid terminal through public-private-partnership route. The Port Trust has finalised plans to build the terminal having a capacity of 15 million tonne per annum. The planned new terminal will have a liquid jetty and a tank farm spread over 70 hectare.
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East-West Corridor project
Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana said the four laning of the entire length of East-West Corridor has been completed except 195 km under implementation and 232 km balance for award.
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Fund for Uttarakhand
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways released an additional amount of Rs 58.77 crore for immediate restoration of damaged national highways (roads or bridges) in Uttarakhand.
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DMIC faces roadblock
Some sections of the Maharashtra government oppose land acquisition for the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) citing strong opposition from the locals. Reports indicate that for implementing the DMIC project, 75,000 acre land is needed.
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NHAI notice to developer
A default notice has been issued to Pink City Expressway company, the developer of Gurgaon-Jaipur highway, by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for not completing the work in time and poor maintenance even after the end of the 60-day deadline for remedial measures.
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24×7 monitoring devices for mobile tower emission
Government plans to install devices for round-the-clock monitoring of radiation levels emanating from telecom towers, according to sources. This would be another level of surveillance along with existing manual system of data collection.
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DoT to seek tax sops for telecom infra sector
The Department of Telecom (DoT) is planning to seek a tax holiday for 10 years without a sunset clause from the Finance Ministry and make viability gap funding available for the telecom infrastructure sector, according to reports.