The Union government has stated that investment in road construction in rural areas saw a ten-fold jump under the United Progressive Alliance's (UPA's) regime. The government rolled out more than 20,100 all-weather roads across the nation last year, a report by the government said projecting a rosy picture of the sector, which is battling with scores of problems like equity crunch, delays in clearances and land acquisition besides major players abandoning projects mid-way.
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Mumbai civic body awards Rs 620 cr worth road works
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation standing committee has awarded road construction and repair contracts worth around Rs 620 crore on February 25. Interestingly, the biggest contract - worth Rs 181 crore - was awarded to a firm called RPS Infra Projects, which has been blacklisted by BMCÂ’s buildings department for allegedly submitting fake bills in aproject around a year ago.
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Home Ministry to check road works along China border
To review progress of road construction along China border the Indian Home Ministry will hold a review meeting this week. Media had last week highlighted about the tardy pace of construction of the key stretches in Sikkim and Uttarakhand that are being built for Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP).
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Infrascape 2013 | Great opportunity in 2013
Most of the contracts in the Infrastructure sector are long lead time projects with significant investments. WhicÂhever customer of ours in these industries that we speak to, they all have experienced the effects of overall economic slowdown and the difficulty in getting funds for these projects. Larger projects such as in the power sector or in the road construction have continued to face problems in land acquisition and obtaining all the governmental clearances.
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Coir geo-textiles in road building
The Coir Board has got the Indian Road Congress approval for use of coir geo-textiles in rural road construction.