There is a uniform policy for levying and collection of user toll for highways in the country, said Sarvey Sathyanarayana, the Minister of State of Road Transport and Highways in Lok Sabha recently. According to him, the Union government has notified the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates & Collection) Rules, 2008 on December 5 in 2008, as amended from time to time, for the projects taken up on or after 05.12.2008.
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Uniform toll policy prevails in country: Minister
There is a uniform policy for levying and collection of user toll for highways in the country, said Sarvey Sathyanarayana, the Minister of State of Road Transport and Highways in Lok Sabha recently. According to him, the Union government has notified the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates & Collection) Rules, 2008 on December 5 in 2008, as amended from time to time, for the projects taken up on or after 05.12.2008.
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AP has 6,759 km of national highway: Satyanarayana
The Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana told the Lok Sabha on April 22 that Andhra Pradesh has 30 national highways having a length of 6,759 km.
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Air India ups efforts to raise money for its turn around
Apart from leasing its headquarters building in Mumbai, cash-strapped Air India has identified some more properties to monitise them in order to raise Rs 5,000 crore as part of its turn around and financial restructuring plan, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on February 27. Air India has identified land at Chennai, Coimbatore and Kolkata, residential plot at DLF Phase-III Gurgaon, a residential apartment in Kolkata and four unoccupied flats in Mumbai, Singh said this in the Lok Sabha.
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Ongoing railway projects need ` 1.47 trillion
Railway ministry pegged the investment requirement for the 347 ongoing new line, gauge conversion and doubling projects at about Rs 1.47 lakh crore as on April 1, 2012.
All sanctioned projects are progressing as per availability of resources, Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury informed Lok Sabha.Targets for projects are fixed on yearly basis based on availability of funds. To expedite completion of ongoing projects, efforts are made to generate extra budgetary financing throu
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Ongoing railway projects need ` 1.47 trillion
Railway ministry pegged the investment requirement for the 347 ongoing new line, gauge conversion and doubling projects at about Rs 1.47 lakh crore as on April 1, 2012.
All sanctioned projects are progressing as per availability of resources, Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury informed Lok Sabha.Targets for projects are fixed on yearly basis based on availability of funds. To expedite completion of ongoing projects, efforts are made to generate extra budgetary financing throu
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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