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The Union Ministry?s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved two projects for widening of highways in Bihar and Orissa. Under the first project the Patna-Dobhi section of the NH-83 in Bihar ? a 127 km stretch, will be widened to four lanes. The road will act as a feeder for the international Nalanda University being planned in Rajgir. ...

The Union Urban Development Ministry has recommended other states to follow the revenue generation model used for the Outer Ring Road Development in Surat, Gujarat. The model envisages the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and the Surat Urban Development Authority (SUDA) selling FSI (Floor Space Index) and commercial plots to raise about ? 5796 crore for the project. The highlight of ...

The 2nd Annual Metro Rail India Summit will be held from February 20-22 in Chennai. Organised by Construction Week and ITP India, with TrafficInfraTech as one of the media partners, it is a premier event for metro rail organisations, infrastructure firms, finance houses and technology providers. Metro Rail India will be very useful for companies in the fields of Signalling ...

The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) will build tunnels and bridges on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in a bid to stem the rising number of accidents on the expressway. The ?2,600 crore project involves putting up two sets of parallel bridges and tunnels at various places on the expressway, which will also extend the length of the expressway by about ...

The part of the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) being planned by the Railways through the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai has been cleared by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF). The clearance for about 58 acres by the Forest Advisory Committee of the Ministry has paved the way for other processes such as inviting bids so that ...

GMR Infrastructure Ltd has completed two highway projects ? one each in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka under Phase III of the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP). The project in Andhra Pradesh is the 181.5km Hyderabad-Vijayawada section of the National Highway 9 (NH9) which has been built by the company?s special purpose vehicle (SPV) GMR Hyderabad Vijayawada Expressways Pvt Ltd on ...

The Urban Development Ministry plans to introduce new rules which would create adequate facilities for pedestrians, cyclists and other forms of non-motorised transport that form the basis of sustainable transport. The new guidelines include norms for signage and design of traffic intersections making them friendlier for non-motorised transport. The new norms will make urban roads all over the country uniform ...

The Delhi-Gurgaon Super Connectivity Ltd (DGSCL), the concessionaire for the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, has introduced touch-and-go smart cards for motorists using the expressway. The smart cards have been issued at the three toll plazas of the expressway. Two types of cards have been introduced – Smart Express and Flexi Smart. Smart Express which is valid for one month offers a discount ...

The government of Punjab and the Union Territory administration of Chandigarh are planning to construct ring roads in the city. The project, if approved and implemented, will see a significant reduction in traffic congestion in the city, especially on some of its arterial roads such as Madhya Marg and Dakshin Marg. The city?s Master Plan has proposed a ring road ...

The Bihar government is planning to build concrete roads for rural clusters with a population of 250 or more people. A total of about 34,116km of such roads will be built under the Mukhya Mantri Gram Sampark Yojna in the next five years. The roads which will be single metalled roads and the project is estimated to cost ?23000 crore. ...