The Goa government has notified draft rules which propose charging vehicles for using State highway, district road, village road and bridges, but have exempted Goan private vehicles from this regime. While two wheelers are also exempted, commercial vehicles will have to pay the requisite fees. The draft says that other heavy mechanical vehicles such as mobile crane dozers, earthmovers, road rollers will have to pay Rs 1,000.
Category: Roads & Highways
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L&T faces RS 3,000 cr order cut
Larsen & Toubro faces the prospect of cancellation of one of its biggest road building contracts worth almost Rs 3,000 crore as its client GMR Infrastructure has decided to terminate the toll road project for National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). GMR Infrastructure has pulled out of NHAI's biggest road project
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K'taka rural road projects
The Karnataka State Cabinet cleared two rural road improvement projects worth Rs 3,658 crore in 189 Assembly constituencies across the state. Under one scheme, 30 km of rural roads will be developed in each of the 189 Assembly segments at a cost of Rs 42 lakh per km.
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Road projects for Arunachal
The Union Government approved the construction of two roads in Arunachal Pradesh - Bameng to Lada (55 km) and Miao to Vijaynagar (157 km) - in principle under the Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
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TN road infra projects
The Tamil Nadu State Highways Department is implementing road infrastructure improvement projects at a cost of Rs 10,000 crore. In 2012-13, the state had allocated Rs 2,262 crore for 4,943 km roads works and 150 infrastructure works. In the next 10 years, 2,000 km roads would be made into six-lane or eight-lane, 5,000 km roads would be made four-lane and all roads in the state would be at least two-lane at a cost of Rs 1.33 lakh crore.
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nod for 2 road projects
The Union Cabinet approved proposals for two highway projects worth over Rs 5,000 crore. The Rs 2,015.6 crore highway project in Bihar will be implemented with financial assistance from Japan. The other one is four-lane 368.2-km-stretch in Odisha. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) also approved the implementation to four-lane the Patna-Gaya-Dobhi section in Bihar with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) loan assistance.
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RIL plans multi-purpose telecom towers
Reliance Industries plans to set up three-in-one telecom towers, starting with Mumbai, as it readies to launch fourth generation telecom services across the country. RIL is slated to launch 4G operations this year through its subsidiary Infotel Broadband.Infotel Broadband plans to set up towers that would support its 4G equipment (base transceiver stations) and video cameras for street surveillance.
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Nashik’s Trimbak Road to get 8.5 km cycle track
For easy pedalling of cyclists the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) plans to develop an 8.5 km bicycle track along Trimbak Road in the city by spending Rs 25 crore. The work includes widening of the road and the bicycle tract will be the first such track in the city.
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HUDA’s demolition drive for road project faces protest
In Gurgaon, a team of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) officials, set out to demolish a factory, which had come in the way of the Northern Peripheral Road (NPR) project, had to face the ire of the angry residents of New Palam Vihar Colony on January 25. The demolition team had landed at Sector 37 part two for the demolition of the factory. They had to make a hasty retreat from the site when the residents became angry.
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Work paced up on flyover in Chennai
In Chennai, traffic chaos in the northern neighbourhood is set to ease soon as the flyover in Vyasarpadi that will connect Chennai with the Kolkata highway (NH5) is nearing completion. The four-lane flyover under construction is a ‘Y’-shaped facility similar to the flyover at Rangarajapuram in T. Nagar.