Roads

Bids open for setting up stop-over facilities. Full scale facilities for highway stopovers planned for travellers comfort. The Government has approved a plan for constructing 1,000 kilometers of Expressways under NHDP Phase-VI and bids are being called for stop-over facilities...

Road improvement to link Gujarati villages. India has signed a loan agreement with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for financing of US$329 million for a mega project covering rural roads in Gujarat. The Government of India/Government of Gujarat and...

Ministry has identified 208 ROB sites. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is all set to construct a total of 24,800 km of National Highways under the proposed Phase-I of Bharatmala Pariyojana. The Public Investment Board has already cleared...

Work in progress on 13 North Karnataka highways. Bids have been invited for procurement of executing agency for conversion of Bengaluru–Mysuru Highway in Karnataka as National Highway, said Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, Mansukh L. Mandaviya has...

Highlights of financing issues. Thirty-one national highways projects have reached financial closure over the last three years amidst challenging financing environment, said Minister of State for Road Transportation and Highways Pon. Radhakrishnan in a written reply to a question in...

DMIC receives Rs.499.86 crore funding. DMIC: work in progress. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has given an update on the industrial corridors being built in the country, with funding status to date. The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is...

Call for Govt, PPP, investors and banks join forces. Public private partnership (PPP) is the need of the hour given the budgetary constraints of the government, said Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping. It was imperative that...

Feasibility done on 87 ROBs. India is to seek private sector investment and external borrowing by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to fund about Rs.6.92 lakh crore for the development of National Highways during the next five years. The...

NHAI given in-principle approval. A large area of private and forest land will be required for the construction of National Highways along the coastline of Odisha, a feasibility study on which is due this month (July 2017). A feasibility report...

Yamuna Bank Development works from October. Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will invite bids in the second week of next month for building integrated cities with smart features at Dwarka, Narela and Rohini and the developers will be selected by October...