Roads and Bridges

The National Green Highways Mission under NHAI has collaborated with the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) for plantation work on National Highway (NH)-7 on the Borkhedi-Wadner and Khatara-Kelapur sections in Nagpur. PFC has provided financial assistance […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) plans to delegate greater powers to its regional officers and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to permit them to approve plans for improvements related to […]

The Maharashtra government has decided to amend the State Highway Bill to incorporate the provisions of the proposed land pooling model. The move is aimed at expediting the development of the Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway project. The […]

NHAI has signed an MoU with IIT Kharagpur for a research project on Laboratory and Field Investigations on Panelled Cement Concrete Pavements for Highways. NHAI has paid Rs 12.5 million for the three-year project. This […]

The MoRTH is planning to develop a user satisfaction index to improve the country’s road infrastructure. The index will be based on continuous data collection through a centralised mobile application and will be launched by […]

In a move to minimise cost overruns and delays, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has decided to involve consultants engaged in the preparation of DPRs) for obtaining statutory and environmental clearances. Their […]

The Union cabinet has given its approval for the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2016. The bill will amend 68 of the 223 sections of the Motor Vehicles Act. The bill also proposes 28 new sections […]

The CCEA has authorised the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to monetise public-funded national highway projects. Only those projects which have been operational and generating toll revenues for at least two years after commercial […]

In the past two years, eight major national highway projects, spanning a length of 865 km, have been completed at a cost of Rs 62.18 billion. Meanwhile, 31 projects covering a length of 2,156 km […]

The MoRTH has proposed the development of seven stretches on the Char Dham Yatra route. The proposed stretches, spanning a length of 889 km, are currently at the detailed project report (DPR) preparation stage. The […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has decided that a dedicated FASTag lane will be ensured at 48 toll plazas on the Delhi-Mumbai and Mumbai-Chennai corridors. To facilitate the purchase of FASTag by […]

The cabinet has given its approval for the signing of an MoU between India and Bhutan on technical cooperation in the fields of capacity building, benchmarking, and bilateral exchange in infrastructure engineering. This MoU will allow the […]

NHAI has come up with a proposal to decongest Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) through the construction of roads, flyovers and underpasses. NHAI has created a separate cell to work on decongesting Delhi […]

NHAI has permitted its regional officers (ROs) to hire equipment and labourers (up to Rs 1 million per project) for demolishing structures that fall within the right of way of a project. As some contracts […]

NHAI has rolled out a cashless payment mechanism (FASTag) at toll plazas on national highways. FASTag offers near-non-stop movement of vehicles through toll plazas and the convenience of cashless payment of toll fee with nationwide […]

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has fixed a 2.5-fold increase in the target for award and construction of national highways for 2016–17. The ministry has set a target of 25,000 km of […]

The Parliamentary Consultative Committee has also discussed the issue of road safety. The central government has set a target for reducing road accident fatalities by 50 per cent by 2020 and has taken several steps […]

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has awarded project management consultancy contracts for all seven packages of the Sewri-Nhava section of the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link project. The scope of the work involves conducting […]