Vigilance and monitoring beefed up on Highways
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 […]
Tag: National Highways
More roads to be concretized
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) […]
Highway villages to be mandatory
India is proposing to introduce a new stiff clause in highway contracts that will make it mandatory for developers to provide facilities for drivers, called […]
E-tags for toll collection on National highways
The Road Ministry will have the Electronic Toll Collection system implemented on all toll plazas on the national highways in at least one lane by […]
Roads to Safety
India has the dubious distinction of having maximum number of fatalities on our roads. During the year 2012, 138275 people were killed in 4,90,000 accidents. […]
Road Development Ecosystem for the North East Region
Roads are one of the most important development demands from the North East (NE) Indian States. Density of roads in North East Region (NER) is far less than the national average. NER Vision 2020 and XIth Five Year Plan also emphasize requirement of expansion, maintenance and improvement of the road network at all levels from National Highways (NH) to rural roads and even porter tracks to provide the essential basis for trade and economic development. Even though the road network per capita is significantly higher in NER compared to the rest of the country, the road length per unit area is low, making the accessibility requirement of inhabitants a need to attend to. A. Saurikhia, Senior Scientist & Head, TMBD, CSIR-CRRI, writes on the special needs and strategies for NER and the technology management initiatives.
Highway projects for Bihar and Orissa
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 […]
GMR Infra commissions two highways
GMR Infrastructure Ltd has completed two highway projects ? one each in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka under Phase III of the National Highway Development Programme […]
Goa to widen two national highways
The state government of Goa in conjunction with the Central government has initiated the process of widening two national highways NH17 and NH4-A. The Union […]
At least two lanes on highways
In directives issued to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Border Roads Organisation (BRO), state governments and state Public Works Departments (PWDs) the central […]