The Road Transport Ministry is set to introduce annual and lifetime toll passes for private cars, enabling unlimited travel on National Highways (NHs) through a one-time payment. Despite comprising 60% of NH traffic, private cars contribute only 20–26% of toll revenue, with 74% coming from commercial vehicles. Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari announced the plan at a workshop on ...
To counter reduced visibility due to foggy conditions on the National Highways during the winter season, NHAI is to take mitigation measures under two heads of ‘Engineering’ and ‘Safety Awareness’. The first one includes reinstalling missing/damaged road signs, rectifying faded or inadequate pavement markings, enhance visibility of safety devices by providing reflective markers, median markers, etc., providing transverse bar markings ...
Amid increasing concerns over their maintenance and upkeep, the government has directed the NHAI to focus on upgrading the existing national highways marking a shift from the current practice of focusing solely on the development of new highways and expressways under the Bharatmala Pariyojana.This could ease congestion on many highways while ensuring their upkeep. As per the NHAI directive, the ...
National Highways, the lifelines of India’s vast road network, play a crucial role in transporting people and goods across the country. However, ensuring safety on these highways, especially during nighttime travel, poses a significant concern. Street lighting plays a vital role in this; however not devoid of challenges. Lt. Col. Sunil Purohit, Head, Operations, Maple Highways, looks at the lighting ...
Greening of highways being a focal point for MoRTH and NHAI under the Green Highways Policy of 2015, the latter has entered into an MoU with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) under ISRO for a period of three years to develop and report a “Green Cover Index” for the extensive network of National Highways in India. Using the capabilities ...
Addressing an event organised by International Road Federation, Anurag Jain, Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways stated that about 4,000 black spots have been rectified in the last three years. Nine thousand more black spots have been identified and the Ministry has set a target of March 2025 to rectify all black spots in the country. Stretches of about ...
No matter how fast commuters could drive on the highway, they always got stuck while paying the toll. But now paying toll is made simpler than before and how? Tolling is a hot topic today because the toll collection has been a long-standing impediment in increasing the efficiency of vehicle movement. Consider this: before any of the modern electronic mechanisms ...
Infrastructure has been one of the cornerstones in the development of the country with exponential growth over the past decade. India has an evolved outlook towards infrastructure development, writes Prerna Soni, Senior Vice President, Invest India. There has been a paradigm shift in the approach towards building infrastructure in India, from need based to an integrated long-term development strategy. All ...
The Ministry of Road Transport in a first has planned to have an initiative to monitor violations of traffic rules on national highways. Mobile teams of ex-defence personnel armed with body-cameras will be deployed by the ministry followed by installation of CCTV cameras on 11 highway stretches in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar. The deployed personnel will patrol ...
The Road Ministry has recently announced that 234kms roads in Nagpur distruct would be brought under the ambit of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and fully concretized. The Outer Ring Road would be completed at the cost of 1,700 crore and its tenders would soon be floated. In Karnataka too134-km Bengaluru-Mysuru highway will be widened from four to six ...
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