The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) constructed the world’s highest motorable road at 19,300 feet at Umlingla Pass in Eastern Ladakh.The altitude of this road is higher than the Mount Everest base camps. The south base camp is situated at an altitude of 17,598 feet in Nepal, while the north base camp is at 16,900 feet...
Category: Roads & Highways
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Rs 90k cr Delhi-Mumbai expressway to be ready by 2023
The eight-lane expressway will have a provision to be expanded to 12 lane
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Will appoint oversight committee from private sector to drive change
Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways is upset with cement cartelisation and faulty detailed project report (DPR) preparations and has set a roadmap for stepping up road construction pace and quality in surface material with innovative mixes. Speaking exclusively to Pratap Padode, Editor-in-Chief of ASAPP Info Global Group at the ‘InfraNirbhar Webinar...
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A New Chapter Begins in Infra Financing
As the country slowly emerges from a severe second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, policymakers in the Central Government have actively been implementing solutions for kickstarting the economy since the previous fiscal. More recently, the setting up of the National Bank for Infrastructure & Financing Development (NaBFID) will ensure long-term financing for major infrastructure projects...
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IRB Infra SPV Achieves Full COD for Udaipur-Gujarat Border Highway Project
Udaipur Tollway Ltd., the special purpose vehicle (SPV) of India’s leading highway infrastructure developer, IRB Infrastructure Developers, has achieved full commercial operation date (COD) for its Udaipur-Gujarat Border six-lane highway project in Rajasthan. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has issued a completion certificate to the company, enabling the collection of toll at full...
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Top 10 highways in first ever NHAI rankings
Ahmedabad-Vadodara tops the chart
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Minister was speaking at webinar on road development as part of NIP
Minister was speaking at webinar on road development as part of NIP
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Work commences on India’s longest river bridge between Assam and Meghalaya
The 19 km bridge that will be built between Dhubri in Assam to Phulbari in Meghalaya will provide a third alternative link to the states of Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura from Assam.
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Gadkari inaugurates Koilwar Bridge over River Sone in Bihar, announces several new projects
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the three-lane 1.5 km long Koilwar bridge over River Sone in Bihar through video conferencing on Thursday.
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MoRTH inks MoU with Austria on technology cooperation in road infra
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology of the Republic of Austria on technology cooperation in the road infrastructure sector on Wednesday.