Tenders for three ports to come by March

February 2016

The government will float tenders for three new major ports in Maharashtra, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu...

Tags: New Major Ports, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Nitin Gadkari

Nag-Mum superexpressway project report work from Feb

February 2016

The DPR of the Nagpur-Mumbai communication superexpressway will start from early February....

Tags: Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, MSRDC, DPR, Nagpur Mumbai Communication

Centres nod for Mumbai coastal road project

February 2016

The Central Government came out with a notification for the long pending proposal of constructing a coastal road in Mumbai, aimed at reducing the tra...

Tags: Central Government, coastal road, Nariman Point, Maharashtra Government

A Towering problem

February 2016

Earlier last month, civic authorities sealed a mobile tower atop a school building in the town of Aurangabad in the state of Maharashtra after reside...

Tags: Criss-crossing, Radio frequencies, Mormugao Municipal Council, Pollution Control Board, Prakash Munshi, CDMA, Wi-Fi, ICNIRP, NGO, BIR, IARC, Girish Kumar, Dr. Leszczynski, FCC, ARPANSA

Maharashtra govt to unveil off-grid policy

February 2016

Maharashtra government will soon bring in an off-grid energy policy to promote rooftop solar power generation and provide subsidy to cooperative hous...

Tags: Maharashtra government, Electricity Generation, Building, Roof Top Solar Panels, Micro-Grid Pilot Project, Power, Biogas

Rs.2 lakh cr for Maha road projects

February 2016

A total of Rs.2 lakh crore will be spent on expanding as well as building new roads in Maharashtra in next five years, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari s...

Tags: Nitin Gadkari, Building, Maharashtra, Kashedi-Parshuram Ghat section, Hatkhamba junction, Transport, Maha road projects

Coastal road final alignment plan delayed by three months

February 2016

The much-anticipated coastal road project is set to delay further by at least three months with the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority ins...

Tags: Road Project, Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority, Technical Consultants

Maharashtra leads in termination of PPPs

February 2016

Maharashtra leads the list of states where the most number of public-private partnership (PPP) investment projects have been terminated....

Tags: Maharashtra, PPP, Assocham, SREI, Investment