Roads and Bridges

IR will now address complaints regarding the quality of food served on trains through a real-time monitoring system. This facility will be provided via a software (eDrishti) which has been developed by the Centre for […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has mandated the use of vehicle location tracking (VLT) devices and emergency buttons for all new public service vehicles except for autorickshaws and e-rickshaws, registered on and […]

The MoRTH has laid the foundation stone for three national highway projects worth Rs 15.57 billion in Kerala. The first project entails the construction of the four-lane, 18.6 km Thalassery-Mahe bypass stretch of National Highway (NH)-66 […]

The Delhi government inaugurated and commissioned the Wazirabad Signature bridge project on November 4, 2018. The project, implemented by the Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation, will link Road No. 50 of NH-1 near existing […]

The central government has announced plans to construct India’s longest bridge across the Brahmaputra river. The four-lane, 19.3 km bridge will connect Dhubri in Assam to Phulbari in Meghalaya, near the Bangladesh border. It is […]

The central government has approved the construction of the 65 km Patna ring road in Bihar. The four/six-lane ring road will pass through Bihta, Naubatpur, Dumri, Daniyawan, Kachchi Dargah, Bidupur, Hajipur, Sonepur and Digha. The […]

The Kerala government has approved a new policy for the public works department (PWD), 13 years after its first policy was introduced. As per the policy, the use of environment-friendly, modern technologies for road construction […]

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has invited bids for the second bundle of national highways under the toll, operate and transfer (TOT) model. The bundle consists of eight national highway (NH) stretches in the […]

NHAI has achieved financial closure for the first bundle of TOT projects. An upfront payment of Rs 96.81 billion was made by the Macquarie Group to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) based […]

NHAI has signed an MoU with the State Bank of India (SBI) for an unsecured loan worth Rs 250 billion. The loan will be for a period of 10 years with a three-year moratorium on […]

The MoRTH has launched the Bidder Information Management System (BIMS) and the Bhoomi Rashi-Public Financial Management System (PFMS) linkage portals in order to expedite pre-construction processes related to bidding and land acquisition respectively. BIMS is aimed at […]

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the project for the construction of a new four-lane, 6.93 km bridge at Phulaut in Bihar. It has also approved the rehabilitation and upgradation of the existing […]

The MoR has signed a record of discussion (RoD) with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for a project on capacity development in rail safety. The RoD marks the formalisation of the agreement reached between […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has laid the foundation stone for and inaugurated national highway and port connectivity projects worth Rs 67 billion in Andhra Pradesh. The national highway projects for which […]

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is likely to set a base price of Rs 68 billion for the second tranche of road projects to be auctioned under the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model. Reportedly, bids […]

NHAI is planning to buy back 20 national highway and 19 state highway projects spanning 3,160 km managed by private players. While the total cost of the 20 national highway projects is estimated to be […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) recently reviewed a total of 700 ongoing national highway projects across the country and has identified about 300 projects to be completed by March 2019. Of the […]

NHAI will rank roads periodically on various parameters, including safety management. Projects on the Delhi-Vadodara, Agra-Mumbai and Mumbai-Kolkata economic corridors will be audited first and once the success rate of the gradation exercise is established, it […]

NHAI has decided to undertake the task of conducting due diligence for contracts prior to bidding. It will ascertain the condition of the highways being offered under the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model and then share this […]

The central government has inaugurated the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE). The EPE commences near Kundli on National Highway (NH)-1, traverses to cross the Yamuna river, crosses State Highway-57 at Mawikalan, NH-58 near Duhai, NH-24 near […]