Roads & Highways - Page 26

Given the life-extension benefits and durability that geosynthetics provide, they are increasingly being deployed for road projects in regions with high soil erosion, an NHIDCL official said today. "For accelerating usage of

The road sector in the country has seen substantial pace in construction activity in the last two years. For the current financial year, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has

Coming down heavily on officials taking too much time for highway project clearances, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today warned them against “sitting on files” and causing “unnecessary delays” and said the files

IL&FS Transportation Networks, country's largest private sector BOT road operators, reported consolidated net profit of Rs.80.42 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2016, registering growth of 3.3% yoy, but decline of

To expedite pace of infrastructure building in the country, the Centre is using IT applications on a large scale to monitor 900 highways projects worth Rs 6 lakh crore, Union Minister Nitin

The government is expecting investments worth Rs 25 lakh crore over the next 3 years in the roads, railway and shipping infrastructure that includes setting up of 27 industrial clusters at ports

To ensure quicker connectivity, the government plans to build 1,000 km of expressways at an investment of Rs 16,680 crore under its NHDP programme, which includes the Vadodara-Mumbai project. The central government

About nine to 12 road developers have been bidding for each of the five projects for which the bids were submitted. After a slow start last fiscal, the newly-approved hybrid annuity model