G Infra has bagged a Rs.400 crore project from National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for two-laning a road connecting two highways in Rajasthan. ´The 62 km long Tonk-Sawaimadhopur section would be executed on EPC mode and completed in two years from the date of commencement of the project,´ the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement.
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Tag: National Highways
Rs.2,000-cr corpus for better road design
To curb accidents on national highways, the Centre will launch a new scheme ´Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Sadak Yojana´ to get rid of black spots on highways.
We will soon form an SPV for port connectivity projects
The state has a long coastline of 720 km, which is almost 10 per cent of India´s coastline. It´s well connected through 18 National Highways and nearly 6,000 km of the railway network.
Maharashtra´s highway cops to prevent accidents
Maharashtra´s highway police has teamed up with various government departments and an NGO to come up with an elaborate plan to reduce the number of accidents on state and national highways.
Implications on infrastructure
The amount of Rs.800 cr budgeted for ports and inland waterways appears to be below the potential of these sectors. The Union Budget 2016-17 lists infrastructure among one of the four priority areas.
Rs.80,000 cr for infra works in MP
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced a package of Rs.80,000 crore for Madhya Pradesh for various infrastructure
Centre leapfrogs Uttarakhand govt on roads construction
The Central Government will directly spend about Rs.12,000 crore to rebuild roads on Char Dham and Hemkund Saheb pilgrim routes in Uttarakhand which were damaged during the 2013 floods, adversely affecting the tourism business in the state, a union government official said. The project will be completed in the next four years.
Egis India working on over 60 infra projects
The global perception that it is not easy to do business in India due to the ´license raj´ is changing as the present government is playing an active role in this regard, says Nicolas Jachiet, Chairman & CEO, Egis Group.
How does the new Land Acquisition Act impact the infrastructure sector?
The subject of land acquisition has been a thorny issue, and Infrastructure Today has been closely following the progress of the legislation that the government has been trying to put in place.
State roads to become NH
The government is to declare about 7,200 km of roads in approximately 132 districts as national highways. The move is seen as a last minute attempt by the government to improve its tally to bringing in more roads under the NH network. In the past four-and-a-half years, about 10,000 km of state highways were added to the NH network and the fresh addition will take the tally to over 17,000 km under this umbrella.