Government’s focus on road sector yields positive results: ICRA

September 2017

Effective policy measures by the Government over the last 36 months have revived the Indian road sector and supporting the execution pace. According ...

Tags: ICRA, ROB, RUBs, Sand mining, Shubham Jain, NHAI, Road sector, EPC, HAM, MoRTH

Government reorganises road projects worth Rs 1 lakh crore

August 2017

The year 2016-17 saw a joint effort by the NHAI and MoRTH to reorganise nearly 88 per cent of road projects involving about Rs 1 lakh crore of invest...

Tags: NHAI, MoRTH, Investment, Public transportation, Vehicles carrying goods, Setu Bharatam programme

Fast Tracking Road Safety Initiatives in Gujarat

July 2017

India accounted for more than 10 per cent of the global road accidents in 2015, with 146,000 fatalities and 480,000 injuries. Road accident deaths fa...

Tags: International Road Federation, Dr JN Singh, KK Kapila, ITS, Ravi Prasad, MoRTH, PPP

Learning from London’s strong public transport system, MoRTH signs pact with London transport body

June 2017

Learning from London’s strong public transport system, MoRTH signs pact with London transport body India’s Ministry of Road Transport and Highways h...

Tags: MoRTH, Public transport system, MoU, Road Transport, Highways, Shipping, Nitin Gadkari, London Stock Exchange, NHAI, RBI

BAGGED IT!

June 2017

HCC (Hindustan Construction Company), as a lead partner in the JV with HSEPL, has been awarded a contract on EPC basis for the construction of Parwan...

Tags: HCC, HSEPL, Construction, Parwan Gravity Dam, Government of Rajasthan, KEC International, Ashoka Buildcon, NCC, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, Dilip Buildcon, Wipro, MoRTH, JMC Projects, Pennar Engineered Building Systems, CMI

RECORD CONNECTOR

June 2017

India recently inaugurated its longest river bridge - the 9.15 km Dhola-Sadiya bridge across river Lohit at the easternmost tip of Assam. Chinta Visw...

Tags: Dhola-Sadiya bridge, Chinta Visweswara Rao, Navayuga Engineering Company, PPP, MoRTH

Dilip Buildcon bags Rs 700-crore EPC orders from Transport Ministry

April 2017

Highway developer Dilip Buildcon has said that it has bagged two EPC road projects worth about Rs 700 crore in Maharashtra from the Road Transport an...

Tags: Dilip Buildcon, Highway developer, MoRTH, BSE, EPC, Rehabilitation, Upgradation, Road Transport, Highways Ministry

Nitin Gadkari wants more powers to NHAI to fast-track projects

April 2017

A proposal to enhance National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) powers has already been sent to the Cabinet for approval. Reportedly, while Union M...

Tags: National Highways Authority of India, Nitin Gadkari, Power, MoRTH, Cabinet approval