The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) awarded a whopping 49 projects totalling 7,500 km last fi nancial year. But this fi scal, in the fi rst six months, the authority has managed to award just four projects measuring 560 km. NHAI attributes this situation to eco-denomic slowdown. Infrastructure companies, who grabbed every road project on offer last fi scal, are now not showing interest to take up these projects. None of the projects awarded last fi scal was on engineering, procuremen
Category: Roads & Highways
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Bihar Road Projects
In the last seven years, Bihar has built a total of 15,052.57 km of roads in the state and now one can travel from any district headquarters to the state capital within six hours except for far flung Kishanganj district. Bihar Chief Minister said that 35 km of roads are built everyday in the state.
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Rajasthan Road Project
For Rajasthan, the Union Government is likely to approve a Rs 4,355-crore project for construction of 1,300 km roads, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, CP Joshi, said. The construction of 1,869-km long roads in the state was completed at a cost of Rs 12,000 crore and work on an additional 1,243-km is underway, he said at a function in Jaipur.
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Bitumen-free joint filler
The construction accessories division of Supreme Industries has developed customised solutions speÂciÂfically for the construction requirements of various segments. DURAboardHD100 (formerly SILflex/Capell HD100) is an exclusive compressible filler board specially designed to be used as expansion joint filler in concrete brick, block work and isolation joint, where readily comÂpressible low load transfer joint filler is reqÂuired. Its exceÂllent recovery property makes it the most suitable produc
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Better road traffic management
Variable Massages Signs (VMS) by Microprocessador Sistemas Digitais, SA Portugal give travellers information about special events. Such signs warn of traffic congestion, accidents, incidents, weather and road conditions information, roadwork zones or speed limits on a specific highway segment. They may also ask vehicles to take alternative routes, limit travel speed, warn of duration and location of the incidents or just inform of the traffic conditions.
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Boosting road quality
Ooms India, a subsidiary of a Dutch multinational company with 100 years history, is one of IndiaÂ’s major processor of SBS Polymer Modified Bitumen (PMB), CRMB and Asphalt Reinforcement Interlayer (ARI) including GlasGrid and SAMI. With plants located at Chennai, Mumbai and Kosi (Mathura), OomsÂ’ PMB has been used for construction of international airports of Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi, Formula 1 race Track, Bandra-Worli Sea Link and hundreds of kilometres of roads all over India. OomsÂ’ PMB h
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Supporting growth
India has launched the worldÂ’s largest programme of public-private partnerships in road construction. The goal is to build as many as 7,000 km of new trunk roads per year. One of these projects was implemented on National Highway 1. NH-1 is one of the oldest and longest highways in India, running from New Delhi in a north-westerly direÂction, passing through Amritsar and continuing into neighÂbouring Pakistan. Soma Enterprise has been commiÂssioned by the National Highways Authority of India to
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New MoS, Road Transport & Highways
Sarvey Sathyanarayana has taken over as Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways. Sathyanarayana is Member of Parliament, (Lok Sabha) from Malkajgiri (Andhra Pradesh) constituency. Born on April 4, 1954 in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Sathyanarayana did his graduation from Osmania University, Hyderabad, and did Master in Law from Evening College of Law, Abids, Hyderabad. Sathyanarayana was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004 and re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha (second term) in the yea
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Key flyover in Kolkata
In Kolkata, one of the major flyover projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has cleared hurdles for a long-pending 600-m leg. The 4.6 km-long Park Circus-Parama flyover project, connecting central Kolkata with its eastern fringes including the airport and IT hub in Salt Lake, may now
see speedy completion.
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Pune civic body mulls more riverside roads to ease traffic
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) wants to go ahead with the development of a road network along the Mutha riverside. PMC has got the high court nod for a 3.2 km road along the Mutha river.