Roads

Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari has launched on 30 Sept 2019 the use of plastic waste in National Highways construction at Delhi-Ghaziabad border.

The Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu has called upon the private sector to play a bigger role in nation-building activities such as infrastructure development and improving health and education sectors.

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has identified Rs.30,000 crore worth stretches on pan India basis which will be constructed through Public Private Partnership on Built Operate Transfer (Toll) Mode.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a US$200 million loan to upgrade rural roads to all-weather standards in 34 districts of Maharashtra as part of programme to improve road safety and better connect rural areas with markets and services.

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has invited investors to come up with more innovative investment models for the infrastructure sector such as the risk-free Toll-Operate-Transfer (TOT) project.

Improvement of byepassed portion from 59,425-km to 63,750-km Dharamkot byepassed section, 63,950-km to 67,000-km Jalalabad byepassed section, 78,932-km to 80,600-km Bughipura byepassed section, 87,700-km to 90,645-km Butter bypassed section.

Bid for Bundle-3, under the Toll-Operate-Transfer (TOT) Model, has been invited since 13 June 2019 with bid due date of 11 September 2019, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has told Parliament on 25 July 2019.

Exclusive Pavilions on AI, IoT, Robotics, Startups, Components and Parts will be showcased at the 10th edition of EXCON, South Asia’s largest construction equipment trade fair to be held in Bengaluru 10-14 December 2019.

About 5,273 km road has been sanctioned for execution at an estimated cost of Rs.57,518 crore under the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for North East (SARDP-NE), Parliament was updated on 10 July 2019.

A total of 34,800 kms of NH length including 10,000 kms of residual NHDP stretches have been approved for development under Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I at an estimated cost of Rs535,000 crore, Rajya Sabha was updated on the projects on 8...