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NHAI official says poor drain management cause for NH8 traffic jam
Posted on 30th July 2016 |
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The Chief General Manager of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), B S Singla, on Saturday said the main reason for the traffic chaos on National Highway-8 (NH-8) was due to the poor management of storm drains. Singla said at present, there was no traffic jam, but warned about the poor drainage system and asked the city administration to re-examine it. |
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Gurugram: Thousands of people stranded on NH-8; Nitin Gadkari directs NHAI to send help
Posted on 29th July 2016 |
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Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has spoken to NHAI Chairman and directed him to send team of officials to NH8 immediately. Thousands of office goers and other commuters were on Friday stranded in Gurugram as heavy rains led to waterlogging on National Highway-8 causing massive traffic jams, forcing authorities to shut down schools in Delhi's satellite city while some offices too declared it an off. |
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Infra spending up; NHAI executing 205 projects: Chairman
Posted on 26th July 2016 |
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Infrastructure spending has picked up in the country and NHAI is executing 205 projects including 18 worth Rs 13,500 crore on hybrid annuity mode, its Chairman Raghav Chandra said. “Infrastructure spending is going up and highways sector has stimulated growth. Cement and steel sectors sales have increased by 5 per cent each while bitumen sales have risen by 35 per cent. |
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Rs 7 lakh crore to be spent on building 50,000 kms of national highways
Posted on 25th July 2016 |
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About Rs 7 lakh crore would be spent to develop around 50,000 kilometres of national highways over the next five years, the government said today. During Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said the Government has allocated a total Gross Budgetary support of Rs 46,834 crores including cess and toll remittance for 2016-17 for the Road, Transport and Highways Ministry. |
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NHAI to issue 200,000 FASTag by March 2017
Posted on 8th July 2016 |
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Get ready to zip through national highways without stopping as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) aims to issue 200,000 FASTag by the end of the current financial year (2016-17) after it crossed the 10,000 mark last month. FASTag offers near non-stop movement of vehicles through user plazas and convenience of cashless payments of toll fee with nationwide inter operable ETC services. |
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NHAI gets green nod for Rs 1,246-crore UP road upgradation project
Posted on 30th June 2016 |
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National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has received environment clearance for updgrading the 146-km long carriageway of Kanpur (Chakeri) to Allahabad section of NH-2 in Uttar Pradesh at a cost of Rs 1,246 crore. "Based on the recommendation of the Expert Appraisal Committee, the Environment Ministry yesterday gave environment clearance to the NHAI's proposal 'Rehabilitation and Upgradation of existing carriageway of Kanpur (Chakeri) to Allahabad section of NH-2'," a senior government official said. |
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Rs 6,000 cr worth highway projects get approval
Posted on 25th June 2016 |
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Highway projects worth about Rs 6,000 crore, including four projects on hybrid annuity model, have been approved for construction by the Expenditure Finance Committee on Friday. Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) headed by Road Transport and Highways Secretary Sanjay Mitra has given its approval to construction of highways totaling a length of over 409 km in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Sikkim and Assam, an official statement said. |
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NHAI to take back 3 roads from builders
Posted on 3rd June 2016 |
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National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) may take back three stranded road assets worth over Rs 2,100 crore in southern India. A senior NHAI official confirmed to FE that the authority is in talks with the concessionaires to take back the assets, though no settlements on their claims have been arrived at. Two concessionaires — Larsen & Toubro and MEP Infrastructure Developers — have terminated the concessions at their end. |
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NHAI awards Rs.2,640-cr Gujarat projects
Posted on 31st May 2016 |
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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has picked builders for four-laning the Bhavnagar-Somnath national highway stretch in Gujarat at a cost of Rs.2,640 crore. The road connects religious and tourist places such as the Island of Diu, Somnath Temple, Gir National Park, Porbandar and Dwarka, NHAI said in a statement on Monday. |
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NHAI to repay lenders for ‘languishing’ projects
Posted on 24th May 2016 |
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NEW DELHI: Bringing some relief to lenders that have financed 'languishing' projects, NHAI has decided to pay back major share of the loan to the banks after carrying out independent assessment of the work done. Such projects will then be, under public-private-partnership (PPP), taken over by the authority for their completion. Sources said NHAI Board, the apex body with representatives from different ministries, has approved the proposal and it will soon be sent to the cabinet secretariat for its assent to carry out necessary changes in the model concession agreement(MCA). |
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