For Haryana, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has extended a loan of Rs 238.65 crore for 21 rural road projects and 14 rural drinking water supply schemes under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)–XIX. According to NABARD, an amount of Rs 221.53 crore has been sanctioned for widening and strengthening of 191.955 km length of rural roads in eight districts like Faridabad, Fatehabad, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Rewari, Rohtak and Yamunanagar in Haryana.
Category: Roads & Highways
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Nagpur civic body ignores to repair bad roads
Public and motorists in Nagpur complain that the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is not repairing bad roads but concentrating to mend the roads that are in good condition. The civic body pressed its jetpatcher pothole repair machine into service to repair the road connecting Raj Nagar (Raja Ram temple) to Chhindwara road, which was found to be not so bad. Taxpayers said this has exposed how the NMC authorities ignored the bad roads and the travails of common man on them.
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Gujarat gets about Rs 1000 cr for rural road project
The Union government has cleared about Rs 1,000 crore for Gujarat to take up rural road works. Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has conveyed this to the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi that the Centre has sanctioned Rs 970 crore to the state for building 919 rural roads. The State government will have to spend about Rs 22 crore as a matching expenditure.
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Hyderabads St Anns-Uppal road to be repaired at Rs 2 cr
In Hyderabad, the rain-battered road between St AnnÂ’s School (Secunderabad) and Uppal junction will be repaired by spending Rs 2 crore, the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) has stated. HMR Managing Director NVS. Reddy has asked engineers of the Roads & Buildings Department of HMR to immediately take up the required repairs. HMR owns the road.
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Repairs begin on Puthiyakavu road in Kochi
In Kochi, repairs have been started on Tripunithura SN Junction-PuthiyaÂkavu road by the State Public Works Department. The road was dug up for Kerala Water Authority works. And it has turned into a nightmarish expÂerÂience to both motorists and pedestrians alike. EmergenÂcy pothole filling work too is in progress after which the 4-km stretch will be resurfaced.
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Govt to shift locals to pave way for pending project work
West Bengal government decided to shift 35 tenants and eight landlords to makeshift houses at the ground adjacent to Bidyadhari School in Duttabad in order to complete the remaining work on the elevated East-West Metro project. Owing to issue on rehabilitation of residents, the construction of 5.77-km elevated part of the 14.58 km corridor between Howrah Maidan and Nabadiganta Tow
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Plea to clear hindrances in elevated expressway in Chennai
The Tamil Nadu government should take steps to remove obstacles in the completion of the stalled Chennai Port - Maduravoyal Elevated Expressway, DMK and PMK parties in the state have demanded. DMK said that it would hold a demonstration on August 17 to demand that obstacles in the completion of the Expressway be cleared and the government extend its full support to the project.
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Road Ministry receives flak from CAG for lack of monitoring
The government auditor Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India rapped the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for spending less than the grants specified. It also rebuked the Ministry its lack of monitoring and expenditure control.
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Kerala allots Rs 35 cr for road repairs in T’puram district
The Kerala government has allotted Rs 35 crore for the repair of roads, damaged in the recent monsoon in Thiruvananthapuram distict, The amount has been allotted for taking up 449 works in various parts of the district, Kerala PWD Minister VK Ebrahim Kunju said in Thiruvananthapurm.
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Worli-Sewri elevated road to be ready in 4-yrs
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has stated that though the 22.5 km Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) project has been delayed, the Worli-Sewri elevated road, which is meant for dispersal of the MTHL traffic to Western parts of the city, will be constructed as per the schedule.