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

TOT auction can draw foreign ‘patient capital’ in win-win

April 2018

CRISIL expects the first bundle of nine toll-operate-transfer (TOT) projects put up by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to elicit good...

Tags: CRISIL, NHAI, TOT, India road transportation sector, IRR

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

Roads on a Hot Streak

March 2018

Sustained government thrust through policy changes, investments and proactive addressing of nagging issues, has placed the roads sector in what could...

Tags: NHAI, HAM, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, BOT, Construction, PPP, TOT, Binaifer F Jehani, CRISIL Research

Seven road rehabilitation projects approved for Madhya Pradesh

March 2018

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has approved seven road rehabilitation projects in Madhya Pradesh. ...

Tags: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, EPC, Bridges, Minor bridge, Construction