Union Road Minister CP Joshi informed a news agency that the ministry cannot attain the target of awarding 9,500 km highways projects in 2012-13 because of several issues. The main issue cited by the minister for missing the target is the impediments in financial closure. Road devel
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Apex court allows work on road projects with only green nod
In a move that may benefit 25 road projects, the Supreme Court clarified that road developers can begin work on a project once it gets environment clearance, irrespective of whether forest clearance is granted or not. The court clarified this while hearing a case involving Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and road regulator National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). In the
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Govt may give concessions to road developers
Government plans to give some concessions to financially strained highway project developers in order to fast-track execution of projects in the sector. It may be noted that the NHAI has been able to award contracts to build under 1,000 km of highways so far in 2012-13 compared to the revised target of 4,800 km in the entire financial
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Ministry dilutes stance on clearance for road projects
In a clarification to the Supreme Court, the union ministry of environment and forests informed that road developers need not secure clearance to begin work on that part of a highway project falling in non-forest areas. But one of the conditions imposed by the ministry is that if a highway was to pass through a patch of forest, the
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Centre okays Rs 732 cr h’way widening project in Odisha
For widening of a section of National Highway 200 in Odisha under National Highways Development Project (NHDP) the Union government on March 7 approved a fund of Rs 732 crore. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the implementation of the development of four laning of Bhuban-Dubari-Chandikhole section of National Highway-200 in Odisha under the NHDP Phase III on Design, Build, Finance Operate and Transfer basis in Build-Operate-Transfer (Toll) mode of delivery, an official stat
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Hyd’s civic body takes up Hospital Road repairs
In Hyderabad, with the entire Fever Hospital road on the verge of collapse, the municipal authorities have decided to take up re-construction work necessitating traffic restrictions on the roads leading to the hospital.
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Bihar to tackle road issues via maintenance policy
A new road policy will be brought into effect in Bihar to tackle road maintenance issues, said the State government on March 5. The State government, at the same time, blamed the Centre for discriminating against the state in releasing funds for road projects.
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3,000 km of highways to be built via EPC deals
The Union Road Transport Ministry is confident of meeting the government's Budget proposal to develop 3,000 km of highways in the first six months of 2013-14, a sharp scale-down from this year's target of 8,880 km target, around one-sixth of which has been met so far.
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Pace of execution of highway projects slows down
Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana informed Lok Sabha that the pace of execution of national highway projects has slowed because of various hurdles. The hurdles include delay in land acquisition, shifting of utilities, environmental and forest clearances, the minister informed. He also pointed to the shortage of skilled and semi-skilled manpower and economic slowdown as further road
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Regulatory body to remove hurdles in road projects
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways CP Joshi has said that to sort out the challenges, including financial stress, enhanced construction risk and contract management issues, the Finance Minister P Chidambaram has proposed to set up a road regulatory authority.