Punjab government´s ´Draft Master Plan 2031´has elicited the wide range public opinion that better road connectivity of Chandigarh with Mohali and Mullanpur was the main concern of Punjab people. Hearing on the objections/suggestions pertaining to the draft Master Plan 2031 was held on 26 November. The Punjab government suggested that the road network should be strengthened by construction of additional roads.
Tag: December
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RWE opens Indian office
German utility RWE has opened an office in Mumbai to strengthen the Asian presence of its trading subsidiary RWE Supply & Trading, focusing on coal, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and fertilisers. The new office was officially opened this month, adding to the trading division´s existing operations in Singapore and Indonesia.
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Centre to pace up expressway projects
The Union government is to fast-track a few expressway projects in the country for the development of industry, said the Union Road Transport & Highways Minister Oscar Fernandes. The Mumbai-Vadodara Expressway, the eastern and western peripheral expressways, and the Delhi-Jaipur expressway will be part of the plan, the Minister added. Addressing the inaugural function of Excon 2013, Fernandes said these expressways will provide enough opportunity for industry to grow along these express ways.
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Chennai port parking yard
To ease traffic congestion the Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) will operate a parking yard at Tiruvottiyur in north Chennai. First the container trucks will have to visit the yard, get all documents verified and proceed to the port. This procedure will prevent vehicles waiting at Ennore Expressway from holding up traffic.
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2nd India Construction Festival 2013 – Move over, policy paralysis
Amid top domain experts, decision makers and policy enablers, this mega event brought to the fore the pressing challenges facing the sector and offered many practical remedies, report MANAS R BASTIA and Shriyal Sethumadhavan.
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Kerala road policy
Kerala Public Works Department is mulling to come up with its State Road Policy to develop a sustainable road network which would meet the traffic requirements of the future. Draft of the policy will be an improvised version of the one prepared four years back. The formulation of Kerala Road Policy will be discussed at the high-level meet of PWD officials.
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Joint LNG procurement
India and Japan, two biggest buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG), will in next three months look at buying the fuel jointly so as to hammer down high prices. The two nations had in October last year agreed to carry out a joint study to examine ways to mitigate increasing import costs in Asia as well as to maintain stable supplies of LNG to the region.
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New technology
Using a new technology, called ´white topping,´the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) would construct the road from Lemon Tree hotel to Jalgaon T Point, that is 2.5 km long, in the city. AMC is introducing the technology for the first time in the city and Rs 3 crore has already been approved for construction of the road.
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Chennai port parking yard
To ease traffic congestion the Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) will operate a parking yard at Tiruvottiyur in north Chennai. First the container trucks will have to visit the yard, get all documents verified and proceed to the port. This procedure will prevent vehicles waiting at Ennore Expressway from holding up traffic.
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SEZ project development
About 30 Special Economic Zone (SEZ) developers have been given six months to one year more time by the Union government to execute their projects. The decision was taken by an inter-ministerial Board of Approval (BoA) chaired by Commerce Secretary SR Rao in its meeting. Requesting for more time to implement their projects, Posco-India, Unitech Infracon and Lodha Dwellers have also made their requisition to the government.