Issues of fund flow to road projects to be reviewed

July 2018

After reviewing over 700 ongoing national highways projects in the country, the road ministry has identified 300 projects for completion by March nex...

Tags: National highways projects, Road ministry, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, NHAI, DPR

NHAI seeking consultant for city logistics parks

February 2017

The road ministry and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) are working on the proposal to set up logistics parks, announced in the recent ...

Tags: Road ministry, NHAI, Budget, Nitin Gadkar, GDP, Logistics parks

NHAI seeking consultant for city logistics parks

February 2017

The road ministry and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) are working on the proposal to set up logistics parks, announced in the recent ...

Tags: Road ministry, NHAI, Budget, Nitin Gadkar, GDP, Logistics parks

Over 40 km of roads to be laid per day!

May 2016

Roads have emerged as the dominant part of the transport system in India. However, if one goes to the rural and hilly regions of India, the road cond...

Tags: Roads, Transport system, NHIDCL, NHAI, Construction, Road Ministry, EPFO, LIC, TOT

Road ministry likely to rebid stuck projs

February 2016

As a meeting in New Delhi between the government, lenders and concessionaires could not find solutions to 10 of the 19 languishing highway projects, ...

Tags: Highway projects, New Delhi, Banks, Rebid stuck projs, Road ministry

3,000 crore should be allocated for road maintenance in the next budget

January 2014

The Ministry of Road Transport seeks no reduction in the allocation of funds for road maintenance from the Finance Ministry in the upcoming budget. T...

Tags: Road Maintenance, Road Ministry

Nod to 14 highway projects under EPC mode

November 2013

As the Union government failed to draw bids under the public-private partnership (PPP) model for road projects, the Union Road Ministry has approved ...

Tags: Union government, bids, public-private partnership, road projects, Union Road Ministry, engineering, procurement and construction

Road construction becomes risky in north-east India

November 2013

Due to security concerns and threats from local terrorist groups in the north eastern region of the country, private road developers are not very kee...

Tags: terrorist groups, north eastern region, private road developers, road projects, Union Road Ministry