DHL Express, one of the global logistics players, recently inaugurated a new, enhanced service centre facility in Ludhiana, an industrial hub in Punjab.
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Green highway
GAIL (India) has stated that India would soon have a green corridor wherein vehicles can
opt to run on natural gas. The proposed green highway from Jalandhar-Ludhiana to Bangalore will provide opportunities to inland transportation to operate on natural gas vehicles by expanding the
reach of compressed natural gas (CNG) beyond cities.
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Ludhiana airport upgradation plan delays
In Punjab's Ludhiana, the move to upgrade Sahnewal airport has hit the first road block with some of the villagers filing objections to the acquisition of their land. According to Section IV of the Land Acquisition Act, people whose land is acquired can file objections, if any, within a month. As the government had on June 15 issued the notification for acquiring land in 10 villages in Sahnewal area for upgradation of the airport and construction of a mega industrial park project, the deadline f
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AAI to finalise sites of low-cost airports in Punjab
Within a fortnight of the Union government announcing three low-cost airports in Punjab, a high-powered committee of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) has arrived in the state to test the feasibility of the airports. On July 11, the four-member team led by Joint General Manager N Makhija arrived to check the economic and technical feasibility of constructing low-cost domestic airports in Patiala, Ferozepur, Jalandhar and Ludhiana.
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Punjab govt allots Rs 25 bn for various projects
In order to implement various projects in the sewerage, water supply, road, housing and other sectors in Ludhiana, Punjab government allocated Rs 2,499.74 crore. The amount includes Rs 1,352.20-crore to upgrade road infrastructure, including 8 laning of Ferozepur Road from Sidhwan Canal to MC limit, among others. The government allotted Rs 398.35 crore for upgrade of Ham
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Modernisation of Rlys needs ` 5.6 trillion
Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said that an investment of Rs 5.6 lakh crore would be required to modernize Indian Railways. He also said that some major industries, mine and port merchants are coming forward for the expansion of railway tracks to intensify their services.
The dedicated state corridor between Ludhiana-Kolkata and Delhi-Mumbai would be completed before five years, he said. The total length of both the corridor railway tracks is 3,338 kilometer (km) and the Ludhiana cor
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Board clears port project in Ludhiana
At a recent meeting of the Project Approval Board of Punjab government cleared the proposal to set up a dry port near Kila Raipur in Ludhiana.The board, which is headed by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, cleared the project as the proposed port may boost industrialisation, trade and commercial activity in Punjab.
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Work on Freight Corridor
The Dedicated Freight Corridor is back on tracks with funding for the country's biggest infrastructure project tied up and more than half the land needed acquired.