In a unique move to ensure quality of roads, Kerala government will next month start a program in which government officials will be put in charge of certain stretches of roads and will have to be submit monthly reports, including freshly clicked photos, on the condition of their stretch of roads. The move is being […]
The total number of FASTags issued by various agencies has crossed the 3 cr (30 mln) mark, minister Nitin Gadkari said today. This represents about 15% of the estimated 200 mln or so vehicles who are eligible for using such tags. FASTags are a form of RFID-based auto-debit mechanism being implemented across the country to […]
Road developer Dilip Buildcon said it has been declared the lowest bidder for three projects of the National Highways Authority worth Rs 5,390 cr in total. The first two projects are for six-laning a 117.3 km stretch of the Bangalore-Mysore NH 275, while the third one is for the six-laning of NH 2 from Khairatunda […]
A medical student in Kerala was fined Rs 5,000 and his car impounded for three days after the driver of a State Road Transport Corporation bus complained that the student forced the bus to go slow. Faizal, from Azhiyoor near Mahe, was accused of blocking the way and forcing the ‘Lightning’ service bus to go […]
Even as states race to denotify state highways as ‘urban roads’, Maharashtra, home of roads and highways minister Nitin Gadkari, managed to get 65% of all sanctioned upgrades of state highways into national highways last year. According to year-end data prepared by the roads and highways ministry, 8,002 km of state highways in the state […]
Maharashtra, home state of Nitin Gadkari, accounted for 50% of the new highway development projects sanctioned in the ongoing financial year, data from the ministry of road transport and highways showed. A total of 520 new projects — including expansions — worth Rs 53,264 cr was sanctioned by Gadkari’s ministry in the ongoing financial year. […]
Nitin Gadkari, who is slowly building up a reputation as a pragmatic and capable minister, is likely to face major disappointment in the ongoing financial year as his ministry is unlikely to meet the steep road construction target it set for itself. Unlike the term of the previous government, when an average of 5,000 km […]
The number of people killed by speedbreakers more than doubled in Karnataka to 2,310 in 2015, while they halved in Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh, which had reported the highest number of such deaths in 2014 at 3,192, saw the figure fall to 1,652 in the subsequent year, data obtained from the road transport ministry revealed. […]
The cabinet, chaired by PM Narendra Modi, revised the budget for a clutch of highway development projects to Rs 6,461 crores, from Rs 5,193 crores. The cost has increased due to higher bid prices, and increase in cost of land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation and other pre-construction activities, the government said. The projects are already taken […]
