The Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) being rolled out to remove bottlenecks, ensure seamless movement of traffic, and collection of user fee through RFID on the national highway corridors is to be extended to state highways.
Tag: Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
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Road Ministry receives flak from CAG for lack of monitoring
The government auditor Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India rapped the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for spending less than the grants specified. It also rebuked the Ministry its lack of monitoring and expenditure control.
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Road connectivity in U’khand to be restored in two months
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is working towards re-linking the Uttarakhand with the rest of the country and is hopeful of providing full connectivity to the Kedarnath shrine by September, the Union department Minister Oscar Fernandes. The restoration work has started but there are stretches where the entire road has been washed out, where new roads have to be build. This may go beyond one or two months, he added.
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Govt to experiment with new technology in NH projects
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is to use new materials and techniques in National Highway projects in the country on experimental basis to promote innovation and use of new technology in highway construction. The promoter of these new materials shall be required to bear the extra cost involved in the proposal.
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Govt to adopt EPC mode for unviable national highways
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to adopt the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) mode for National Highways which are not viable on PPP basis. The 12th Five Year Plan envisages construction of 20,000 km of 2-lane National Highways projects through EPC mode.
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Centre sanctions funds for Arunachal highway
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has sanctioned Rs 130.74 crore as compensation to be paid to tribal land owners for acquiring land for construction of a trans-Arunachal highway from Nechiphu in the state's West Kameng district to Hoj in East Kameng district. In a letter written to Member of Parliament for Arunachal Pradesh, Takam Sanjoy, Vijay Chhibber, Secretary, Road Transport and Highways Ministry, confirmed receipt of Sanjoy's letter of March 20, 2013, requesting the expedi
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NHAI may outsource toll collection as builders want early exit
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is considering changes in certain contract formats for building national highways. Under the new format, toll collection could be the responsibility of a separate contractor and not the road builder. Such a step was necessitated after several private contractors found toll collection was not a viable proposition for such projects.
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NHAI may bar GMR from its bids
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) are contemplating action against GMR Group for its 'abrupt and unilateral' walkout of the 555-km-long Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad National Highway project. Alleging delays in approvals GMR has come out of the road project.
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About 10,000 km of SH to be upgraded into NH
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has started a feasibility study of the existing state highways (SH) to declare them national highways (NH) running throĆĀugh different states.