There is a uniform policy for levying and collection of user toll for highways in the country, said Sarvey Sathyanarayana, the Minister of State of Road Transport and Highways in Lok Sabha recently. According to him, the Union government has notified the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates & Collection) Rules, 2008 on December 5 in 2008, as amended from time to time, for the projects taken up on or after 05.12.2008.
Category: Roads & Highways
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Govt completes major part of East-West Corridor project
Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana spoke about the status of the East - West Corridor project in Lok Sabha recently. He 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. Main reasons for delays are land acquisition & forest clearance. About Rs 27,000 crore has been incurred on Eas
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Haryana gets Rs 238.65 cr loan for roads, drinking water
In Haryana, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has sanctioned a loan of Rs 238.65 crore for 21 road and 14 drinking water projects in Haryana, NABARD (Haryana), Chief General Manager, DV Deshpande said. The loan was approved under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) scheme, he added.
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UP takes up eco-friendly roads to save natural resources
Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh is to get eco-friendly roads to save a lot of natural resources which usually goes waste during construction activities. With an aim to save such wastage, the State government is planning to build eco-friendly roads in the state. Unnao is the first district to get one such road in the next three months.
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Naxal-hit West Bengal districts get Rs 822 cr for roads
The Union government has cleared Rs 822-crore for roads projects in three Maoist-affected districts of West Bengal. The sanction for 447 road projects for the districts of Paschim Mednipur, Bankura and Purulia comes soon after the Union government approved Rs 523-crore road projects for the state.
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Work on Delhi’s flyover launched 15 years ago, still incomplete
In Delhi, local people have launched a protest condemning the undue delay of 15 years in executing the Rani Jhansi Flyover Grade Separator. Not even a half of the flyover project is completed yet. The flyover idea was mooted in 1998, but construction began only in November 2008.
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58 tar roads in Pune to be turned into cement ones
Pune Municipal Corporation mulls concreting of 58 tar roads. The road concreting include key throughfares like FC Road, JM Road, Shivaji Road, Karve Road, Fergusson College, Jungli Maharaj road. Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) plans to concretise the 58 main roads in the city. It has already completed concretisation of Airport, Sinhagad, Solapur roads and a stretch of the Pune-Mumbai highway.
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Kerala makes contractors responsible for bad roads
Contractors will be made responsible for the damaged roads they have built in Kerala. The Kerala government has taken this step as the stateĆās road network collapsed in recent heavy rains. The State Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said recently that the contractors will be asked to repair on their own the roads that collapsed within a year of construction.
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Chhavni road in Indore to be widened
In Indore, widening work of Chhavni road was scheduled to start from August 13. Widening of the road will lessen the traffic load on BRTS corridor.
Road from Chhavni Crossing on BRTS to Jagannath Dharamshala is going to be widened up to 60 feet. Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) said that certain encroachments on Chhavni road will be removed as part of the road widening.
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Jingiriguda portable bridge in Odisha remains unused
As there are no approach roads built to the portable steel bailey bridge over river Kerlema under Jingiriguda panchayat in Phulbani town area, people are unable to use it. The bridge was inaugurated six months back by the MP Rudra Madhab Roy. The bridge was constructed under the Integrated Action Plan scheme by the Integrated Tribal Development Agency of Balliguda at an estimated cost of Rs 1.7 crore. It is 150 feet in length.