Road developers of 25 highway projects, which were allotted to them over a year ago, have been backed out. With this, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has appealed to the government to step in and take a call on rescheduling of premium payment to the developers. These road developers state that delays in statutory clearances, fall in traffic density due to adverse economic conditions in the country besides higher costs of raw materials has resulted in them wanting out of these pr
Category: Roads & Highways
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Rs 1,200 cr for Mumbai’s road reconstruction
This year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will reconstruct roads in the city at a cost of Rs 1,200 crore. It will invite tenders soon for the same. The civic body has allotted Rs 900 crore to reconstruct major roads and Rs 300 crore for minor roads. In a move to fix responsibility, BMC has appointed one engineer for each road.
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Official calls for firms to take over completed infra projects
Union Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram asked private firms to set up facility management companies in order to take over completed infrastructure projects. Speaking at a conference organised by Ficci, the secretary said the facility management companies must take over the operation and maintenance of completed proje
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NHAI to go for out-of-court settlements
Out-of-court settlement of disputes is being pursued by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to fast-track highway construction. Developers have made claims of Rs 10,000 crore in several build-operate-transfer projects. Many of these cases have gone to arbitration, locking up funds for developers already squeezed by a drought of bank finance, delayed clearances and overall economic gloom.
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Ministry asks NHAI to sort out row with road developers
The Union Road Transport Ministry and Highways has asked the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to expedite the process of resolving disputes with highway developers by the independent committee set up under the Authority to review individual cases and send its recommendations to the NHAI board. Since its inception earlier this year, the committee has taken up seven cases of pending claims but is yet to resolve any of them, said ministry officials.
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Centre okays widening of Mumbai-Goa h’way into 4-lanes
Government's efforts are on to eliminate head-on collisions on the Mumbai-Goa highway. The lane expansion of the highway's 366-km stretch from Indapur to Zarap has been being inched ahead slowly. The Centre has given in-principle approval to expand the highway from two to four lanes. But ministers and officials involved in the project say that because of factors like seeking clearances, land acquisition and the tendering process, work is unlikely to start before 2015.
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Agrawal promises Arlem-Raia road-widening
Taking cognizance that the Arlem-Raia road has become accident-prone South Goa District Collector ND Agrawal held a meeting on April 25 where he promised to implement measures to improve road conditions and required signages would be installed by May 10. The collector who meet PWD officials, traffic police, Maina Curtorim police, Raia panchayat and Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, said that the land acquisition process required for the road widening would be completed shortly.
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Snow cleared, road repairs continue on Rohtang Pass
In Himachal Pradesh, the Rohtang Pass, the gateway to adventure tourism destinations of Lahaul Valley was cleared of winter snows on April 25 but the traffic through the pass will be restored only by May first week, an official said in Manali. The snow-clearing operation is over and now the repair of the road between Manali and Keylong is on.
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Govt admits slow progress in road building due to its own hurdles
Delays in environment and forest clearance and land acquisition have contributed a lot in causing slackened progress in road building. The Parliament was informed on April 25. The progress of construction of National Highways has been slow due to several problems such as land acquisition, shifting of utilities, environmental and forest clearance, as well as manpower and economic slowdown, Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Tushar A Chaudhary said in the Rajya Sabha.
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Govt clears 2 National Highway projects in Rajasthan
The Union government approved two highway extension projects in Rajasthan involving investments of Rs 713 crore with assistance from the World Bank. A press release from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said that government has approved a proposal for rehabilitation and upgrading of two stretches of National Highways in Rajasthan under Phase I of National Highway Interconnectivity Improvement Projects (NHIIP) with World Bank loan assistance.