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.
Category: Roads & Highways
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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 stateÂ’s 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.
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Odisha gets Rs 1,068 cr worth road works under PMGY
The Union Ministry of Rural Development's Empowered Committee has sanctioned proposals worth Rs 1,068 crore to Odisha under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGY). However, the Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the Odisha government to pace up the implementation of infrastructure projects in the state. The State required a quality of roads, the committee also stressed.
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Alternative route to NH-2 in Manipur’s Mahai lambi
In Manipur, the State government plans to develop an alternative route to National Highway No 2 in Mahai lambi (ML). In this regard, the State Works Minister Kh Ratankumar inspected ML on August 11. The NH No 2 passes through Mayang Imphal, Wabagai and Kakching Lamkhai. The matter of developing an alternative route to NH was also raised during a meeting of Chief Ministers and Works Ministers of North Eastern states held in Guwahati recently.
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Roads in a bad shape in Malnad region of Karnataka
In Karnataka's Malnad region, roads of Shimoga district that connect the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada are in a pathetic condition. While Tirthahalli, Hosanagar and Sagar taluks fall in the Malnad region, Bhadravati, Shimoga, Shikaripur and Sorab taluks are in the semi-Malnad region.
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Ministry denies restructuring for all road developers
Union finance ministry opposed the idea of the roads ministry to provide blanket relief to road developers who are suffering from financial crisis. Recently, the finance ministry received proposals from the roads ministry for restructuring the amount owed to the government by road developers