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NHAI drives infrastructure growth, prioritises corridor-based highway development.

NHAI

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is advancing a corridor-based strategy for highway development, focusing on consistent standards, user convenience, and logistics efficiency. Leveraging GSTN and toll data, a 50,000-km high-speed highway corridor network has been identified as critical to India’s goal of becoming a $30 trillion economy by 2047. By FY25, MoRTH targets 4,827 km of operational ...

Enabling Responsible Mobility With Technology and more Technology

L to R: Winston Pereira, Executive Director, Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India Pvt. Ltd.; Ondrej Vales, Product Marketing & Sales Manager, IT IS Holdings Skytoll; JP Nair, Managing Director, VIS Group; Sandeep Pawar, MD & CEO, Kent Intelligent Transportation Systems (India) Pvt Ltd; Mike Lewis, Global Head – Marcom, Norden Communication;  Akhilesh Srivastava, Executive Vice President, IRF IC;  Mahmood Ahmed, ...

Secretary, MoRTH

Pankaj Agrawal, Union Power Secretary has been assigned the additional charge of Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways following Anurag Jain’s  appointment  as  Chief Secretary, Madhya Pradesh.

MMLPs – Changing Indian logistics landscape

In India’s quest to become a global logistics powerhouse, integrated facilities that are strategically located at key transportation junctions and designed to streamline the movement of commodities are emerging as pivotal infrastructure hubs.  By consolidating warehousing, transportation, and more under one roof, Multimodal Logistics Parks (MMLPs), are significantly improving trade. Prakash Gaur, CEO, National Highways Logistics Management Ltd (NHLML), who ...

In tune with Vision 2047

Soon after the formation of the new Government, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways could unveil an ambitious plan for building 50,000 km of new, access-controlled, expressways by 2037 with an aim to reduce logistic costs. This might replace the Bhartamala scheme in tune with the Vision 2047 for the road sector. Implementing GPS-based tolling on select stretches and ...

Driving License validity Extended

In  a recent  advisory, the  Ministry of Road Transport and Highways  directed transport departments against prosecuting motorists using the documents that have expired since February last year. The Ministry has extended until September 30, the validity of driving licenses, vehicle registration s certificates and different other permits considering the lockdown and other restrictions.  However, the Pollution under Control certificates have ...

Highway projects approved for Madhya Pradesh.

Source: The hindu Business Line Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has recently  sanctioned road development projects of 291 km worth 726Cr for the state of Madhya Pradesh These projects include preparation of detailed project reports for upgradation of declared National Highway (572 Km) at a cost of 17.72 crore besides strengthening of road section of Sagar-Chhatarpur on NH 86/934 ...

TRAFFICINFRATECH EXPO/PARKING INFRATECH EXPO 2016 BIG, BETTER, BEST

The fifth edition of TrafficInfraTech Expo along with the second edition of ParkingInfra Tech 2016 in Mumbai best describes the term ‘Big, Better, Best’. In the last five years, this focused trade show that is tailor-made to meet the requirements of the traffic industry witnessed great business and networking. 3100 Visitors 120 Exhibitors Joint Ventures, Partnerships Three-Day Conference 20 Countries ...

Solar powered ETC plazas soon

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has announced that the Electronic Toll Collection plazas which will be set up across the country will be solar powered. Architects, professionals and qualified engineers have been asked to submit designs for these plazas. The Ministry has announced a prize of र10 lakh for the best design entry followed by र7 lakh and ...

World Bank to invest $500m in roads & highways

The World Bank will support the National Highways Inter-connectivity Improvement Project (NHIIP) with a $500m investment. The funding will help extend highway network connectivity in less developed states and improve the capacity of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to manage the highway network in the country. Under the project, about 1120km of existing single or intermediate lanes of ...