Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the three-lane 1.5 km long Koilwar bridge over River Sone in Bihar through video conferencing on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated six mega development projects in Uttarakhand under the Namami Gange Mission and announced a campaign under Jal Jeevan Mission to ensure drinking water connection to schools and anganwadis (child care centres) in the country through video conferencing on Tuesday.

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has taken strict action against the defaulting firms on the unfortunate accident during the launching of girders on February 16, at the new four-lane bridge over River Ganga at downstream of Farakka Barrage including approaches connecting the Farakka-Raiganj section of National Highway (NH)-34 in West Bengal, leading to two casualties.

Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways & Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises (MSMEs), Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the upstream carriageway of Mahatma Gandhi bridge over River Ganga through video conference in Bihar on Friday.

The World Bank and Govt of India on Tuesday signed a loan agreement to enhance support for the Namami Gange programme that seeks to rejuvenate the River Ganga.

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation India’s second riverine multi-modal terminal built at Sahibganj in Jharkhand on September 12. Modi will inaugurate the state-of-the-art terminal through a two -way digital communication system at an event in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

The year 2018 has been a significant one for the logistic and shipping sector in India.

13 standardised state-of-the-art ship designs that are suitable for large barge haulage on river Ganga (National Waterway- 1) were made public by Inland Waterway Authority of India (IWAI).

For instance, out of the 111 identified National Waterways, 106 were conceived in 2016 alone. An assertive Nutan Guha Biswas, Chairperson, Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is confident that the statutory agency will continue to exceed its performance in 2018.