The Big Indian Bureaucrat Shuffling

November 2016

In a recent move, the government has changed roles of 19 secretaries and 18 joint secretaries in a major bureaucratic reshuffle. The 19 new secretari...

Tags: National Highways Authority of India, NHAI, Raghav Chandra, Yudhvir Singh Malik, Niti Aayog, Anil Swarup, Susheel Kumar, Sanjeevanee Kutty, Prabhas Kumar Jha, Injeti Srinivas, Sports Authority of India, Anoop Kumar Srivastava, Ameising Luikham, Seema Bahuguna, Preeti Sudan

New Peripheral Expressway to ease Delhi's traffic woes

November 2016

Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Pon Radhakrishnan has informed the Lok Sabha that to decongest traffic in Delhi, a ‘Peripheral’ Exp...

Tags: Road Transport, Highways, Pon Radhakrishnan, Lok Sabha, Peripheral Expressway, EPE, Baghpat, Gautam Budh Nagar, Palwal, NHAI, WPE, Manesar Palwal, BOT, Haryana project

Three-day convention inaugurated on innovations in Green Highways

November 2016

A three-day workshop on National Convention on Innovations in Green Highways has been inaugurated in the capital. Speaking on the occasion, Minister ...

Tags: National Convention on Innovations, Green Highways, Road Transport, Highways, Shipping Mansukh Lal, Farmers, Raghav Chandra, NHAI, ITC, TERI, National Green Highways Mission, NGHM, NHIDCL

Thirteen per cent reduction in high-risk road projects over the past fiscal

November 2016

CRISIL’s analysis of 85 under-construction and 104 operational BOT and annuity projects awarded by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), w...

Tags: CRISIL, NHAI, Construction, Ajay Srinivasan, Sushmita Majumdar, PCOD

Metrino project fast tracked

November 2016

The pod taxi project is all set to move into fast lane, with the government deciding to execute it under NHAI and four global firms qualifying in ini...

Tags: NHAI, Personal Rapid Transit, Pod taxi project, Metrino project

NHAI prepares for new funding route

November 2016

NHAI is preparing to start the process of monetising toll-based operational road assets under the toll, operate and transfer (TOT) model, aimed to br...

Tags: NHAI, TOT, Investment, Highways sector, Cabinet clearance

About 10,000 km of road projects every year for the next six years

November 2016

Raghav Chandra, Chairman, NHAI, delivering the keynote address for the evening. CW Annual Awards Keynote Speaker RAGHAV CHANDRA, Chairman, National H...

Tags: NHAI, Raghav Chandra, Highway sector, GDP commercial traffic, ATMS, RFID, Smart Cities, Ports, Electronic, TOT, Cabinet, Road projects

I have earned the reputation of being a people´s man

November 2016

His biggest victory, he tells you, ´is being a people´s man´. This was evident as Vinayak Deshpande walked up the stage to receive his award with his...

Tags: Vinayak Deshpande, Tata Projects, SHRIYAL SETHUMADHAVAN, CW Man of the Year, EPC, Engineering, Infrastructure, PGCIL, NHAI, DMRC, LED, Social infrastructure, Ravyavati River, Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link, CW Annual Awards 2016