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| Nath admits slow pace of highway projects | 05-NOV-09 |
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| Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath today admitted that he had failed to expedite highway projects in the country. He said that the deadline set to award 124 road projects during this financial year has been extended from March 2010 to June next year. |
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| North East industry to get excise duty breather | 29-OCT-09 |
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| There’s some good news for the industry of North-East as the union commerce ministry has agreed to have a relook into its March 2008 notification which had considerably restricted excise duty exemption of industrial units in the region. It is learnt that union commerce minister Kamal Nath had recently “assured” the Assam chief minister, Tarun Gogoi, to look into the issue. |
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| NHAI to halve time taken for land buys | 05-OCT-09 |
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| The government plans to halve the time it takes to acquire land for road projects, a move that is expected to help it and construction companies save over Rs 10,000 crore, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath said. |
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| 'Wealth does not create roads; roads create wealth' | 03-OCT-09 |
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| Six months into the new financial year and almost four months in office, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath sees “ill effects” of the global downturn waning. In an interview with Mihir Mishra and Jyoti Mukul, Nath, who as the commerce and industry minister in the previous UPA government was part of the fire-fighting to minimise impact of the slowdown, says that the current year will be better than the last year. |
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| BK Chaturvedi panel's report may get Cabinet nod today | 01-OCT-09 |
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| Recommendations of the BK Chaturvedi Committee — set up to recommend ways to expedite various road projects in the country — may be accepted at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) tomorrow. |
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| NHAI against staff inclusion in cadre | 04-SEP-09 |
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| The strengthening of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) by creating its own cadre has been delayed further, as its board has rejected a proposal to absorb 50 per cent of the existing staff into its own cadre. The authority currently has only around 10 per cent of the present staff as permanent employees and the rest are on deputation. |
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