CONCRETE BATCHING PLANTS

May 2018

Concrete is a major constituent of infrastructure projects: mainly in real estate, roads and highways, railways, sea ports, airports, power plants, i...

Tags: Concrete, real estate, Roads, Highways, Railways, Sea ports, Airports, Power plants, Debasis Bhattacharya, Ajax Fiori Engineering, VG Sakthikumar, Construction equipment, VG Sakthikumar, ICRA, Saroj Kumar Jha

Raising the bar

May 2018

Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari has set road project award and construction targets of 55 km per day and 45 km per day, respective...

Tags: Road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari, Matching technologies, Equipment, Concrete Batching Plants, Concrete Boom Pumps, Case Construction Equipment, Nitin Gadkari

Honouring the unsung heroes

May 2018

Change, Road Safety and Innovation were the mantras of the seventh edition of Mahindra Transport Excellence Awards held recently in New Delhi, where ...

Tags: Mahindra Transport Excellence Award, RISE pillars, Saakshi Kishnani, Vinod Sahay, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Veejay Nakra, Auto Division, YS Malik, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Mahindra Group, Rakesh Batra, G Raghuram, Construction Equipment, Mahindra Truck & Bus

Louis Berger awarded Mumbai Metro Line-4 contract in India

April 2018

Louis Berger, as part of a DB-led consortium, has been awarded a project management and construction management services contract, including design r...

Tags: Louis Berger, Project management, Construction management services, MMRDA, Kshitish Nadgauda, Bridges, Tunnels, Highways, Roads, Rail, Transit, Aviation, Smart cities, Mumbai Monorail, Hyderabad Metro

Paving to perfection

April 2018

Asphalt paver market is likely to flourish in the coming years as more rural roads and highways are in the offing. The Budget 2018-19 has major focus...

Tags: Asphalt paver, Rural roads and highways, Ramesh Palagiri, Wirtgen India, wheeled pavers, Volvo CE, Dimitrov Krishnan, Budget 2018-19, Sensor pavers

Funding Not a Constraint for Road Building Programmes

March 2018

In an exclusive interview to INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY, Debjani Chakrabarti, Director Highways, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) elucidates s...

Tags: Debjani Chakrabarti, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Roads building programme, EPFO, LIC, PPP, BOT, Hybrid Annuity Mode, EPC, NHDP, PCU, Construction, NHIDCL, NHAI, NIIF

Port of Call

March 2018

The Government of India has embarked on the Sagarmala Programme with a vision to reduce logistics cost for both domestic and EXIM cargo and utilise t...

Tags: Government of India, Sagarmala Programme, Waterways, CEZ, EXIM cargo, Nitin Gadkari, TEFR, Port, DPR, NGR, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and National Highways Authority of India, JNPT, SEZ, Ministry of Shipping, Karwar Port

We will require 80,000 direct and 1.25 lakh indirect skilled workforce

March 2018

For instance, out of the 111 identified National Waterways, 106 were conceived in 2016 alone. An assertive Nutan Guha Biswas, Chairperson, Inland Wat...

Tags: Nutan Guha Biswas, IWAI, AGMUT, IAS, Guha Biswas, National Waterways, transportation, River Ganga, Narendra Modi, Venkaiah Naidu, Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development, Ganga Rejuvenation