Tag: Road Transport
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RTA to link with TGICCC
The Telangana government proposes to link the Road Transport Authority database with the Telangana Integrated Command and Control Centre in Hyderabad, allowing traffic police to access real-time vehicle data during checks, including registration status, insurance and pollution control certificates. The move is designed to make the issuance of traffic challans more accurate and transparent by…
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Global award for road safety
The Indian govt received the Prince Michael Decade of Action Road Safety Award, the highest award in this field, for achievements in “improving vehicle safety” in the past decade, including the roll out of new car safety assessment regime, and mandatory ABS (anti-lock braking system) features in all new two-wheelers. ‘Following the first independent crash…
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Multimodal Transport: Key to Cost-Effective & Sustainable Logistics
Jehaan Adil Kotwal, the Founder CEO of Good Mind and HumSafer Driver Safety Foundation, an NGO that addresses driver welfare by leveraging AI and offering support in areas like training, medical facilities and scholarships for drivers’ children, highlights a few issues connected to multimodal logistics. Multimodal transportation offers significant advantages, including optimised efficiency by leveraging…
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J&K an infrastructure hub: PM Modi inaugurates Sonamarg Tunnel
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Nitin Gadkari, inaugurated the Sonamarg Tunnel, marking the onset of transformative infrastructure development in Jammu and Kashmir. With a vision to enhance connectivity, reduce travel time, and boost tourism, the government has announced ambitious projects worth over ₹1 lakh crore, including national highways, tunnels, and ropeways. Sonamarg…
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Turning the tide on ‘Golden Hour’ Care
Time management is the key to reduce mortality in trauma patients. As per the annual report on ‘Road Accidents in India-2022’ published by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, a total of 461,312 road accidents have been reported by the States and Union Territories during the calendar year 2022, which claimed 168,491 lives and…
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National Highway projects
In an initiative to enhance seamless connectivity between Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 12 National Highway projects with a total length of 105 km in Kasargod recently. This initiative holds the promise of reducing overall transportation costs and eliminating black…
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Accelerating Infrastructure Projects
The Road Transport, Highways and MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari has stated we could well use the current Covid-19 crisis and turn it into an opportunity to address a number of other problems which include roadblocks in highway projects in the country as well as the issue of stranded migrant labourers in many states. Gadkari said…
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Gadkari to review 500 projects worth Rs 3 lakh cr
To iron out issues and explore a way forward for pending projects, Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport &Highways and MSME will chair a two-day review meeting of all on-going projects of NHAI / MoRTH. On Day – One, projects of South Zone (Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Pondicherry, Karnataka) and Central Zone…
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100 days of the government has been just the beginning…
Recently, while addressing a press conference in Mumbai on 100 days of the Government, Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways said that, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Government has been working decisively and transparently, with the vision of development, making India a super-economy in the world. On road…
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Mega Highway Plan
[box type=”shadow” ] Opening the Seminar session at Smart Mobility 2018 on Capacity Building and New Mobility Plans for India, Yudhvir Singh Malik, Secretary, MoRTH presented the government’s plan for enhanced capacity building and its Vision 2022 [/box] As far as the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is concerned the sweep of it’s mandate…