48 per cent of NHAI's 150 awarded road projects bagged by mid-size contractors in FY18. Here's more!

July 2018

States such as Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are expected to incur higher capex on roads in FY18E, according to...

Tags: NHAI, Construction, NHAI, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, EPC, PMGSY

India, World Bank sign loan for rural road projects

July 2018

India has signed a US$ 500-mn (Rs 33.71 bn) loan pact with the World Bank to provide additional financing for PMGSY rural road projects. ...

Tags: PMGSY Rural Roads Project, World Bank

Pushing Boundaries

June 2018

With the demand for excavators growing in the market, OEMs are introducing new features to further improve the efficiency and productivity of the mac...

Tags: Excavators, OEM, Machines, Swachh Bharat, Rajdeep Mitra, Liugong India, CAGR, Dimitrov Krishnan, Volvo CE India, Rahul Shah, Sumer Group, Mining, Coal, DDUGJY, PMGSY

Hydraulic breaker demand to prevail

May 2018

Excavators with hydraulic breakers are used in urban construction projects, road construction, metro projects, etc. In crowded areas, this is one of ...

Tags: Excavators, Hydraulic breakers, Road construction, Metro projects, Drilling, Blasting, DOZCO, PMGSY, Equipment

NBCC diversifies into highway construction; gets contract to build 50-km four-lane highway in Uttarakhand

April 2018

NBCC (India), the Navratna CPSE under Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, has added yet another aspect to its expanding business by diversifying i...

Tags: Navratna CPSE, NBCC, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, EDCUL, Anup Malik, Harak Singh Rawat, Dr Anoop Kumar Mittal, PMGSY, Jim Corbett National Park, Garhwal, Kumaon Mandals, Navratna CPSE

Budget 2018-19: Infrastructure, Rural Development key

March 2018

Infrastructure development has been one of the top priorities of the Union Budget 2018-19 presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitely in Parliamen...

Tags: Infrastructure development, Union Budget 2018-19, Arun Jaitely, Smart Cities mission, transport infrastructure, MSME sector, Abhijit Gupta, CASE India, PMGSY, Sandeep Singh, Tata Hitachi, Schwing Stetter India, Construction Machinery Co, ELGi Equipments, ZF India

Central Road Fund’s expansion unlikely to affect allocations to the road sector

February 2018

With the remaining portion of the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP) getting subsumed into the new road-development programme (83,000 km i...

Tags: National Highway Development Programme, CRIF, PMGSY, Shubham Jain

Infrastructure Revival to Push CE Growth

January 2018

The infrastructure sector is today undoubtedly one of the strong pillars of the Indian economy and the current Union Government is strongly focused i...

Tags: Infrastructure, Union Government, GST, GDP, ICEMA, Arvind K Garg, PPP, Sagarmala ports, Bharatmala roads, NHAI, NHIPC, AIBP scheme, UDAAN scheme, NHDP, PMGSY