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Dhruvaksh Saha is a policy reporter, currently tracking developments in transport, infrastructure, and the economy, focusing chiefly on policy and sectoral movements in highways, railways, maritime economy, mass transport, and economic policy planning at NITI Aayog.
Dhruvaksh Saha is a policy reporter, currently tracking developments in transport, infrastructure, and the economy, focusing chiefly on policy and sectoral movements in highways, railways, maritime economy, mass transport, and economic policy planning at NITI Aayog.
In line with earlier plans such as National Rail Plan and Maritime India Vision, NLP aims to bring sweeping changes in the current costly, polluting and congesting modal mix of Indian logistics
While the ministry of road transport and highways aims for a record 50 km/day construction target, it has only been able to execute 19 kilometres (kms)/day till August
After more than 5,000 electric buses were readied in five states as part of the Grand Challenge scheme, there is a demand from other states for an additional 15,000
Dealers of registered vehicles must get authorisation certification; intermediaries will have to provide details of each registered vehicle
Iran wants domestic resolution; India for international arbitration framework
The minister recently announced that the NHAI InvIT will soon be open to retail investors, and will assure them a minimum return of 7-8 per cent.
Invites industry to set up domestic manufacturing facility at estimated cost of Rs 1,000 crore
Sources also indicated that the current policy was causing a lot of leasable Railways land to go idle, notwithstanding the potential for terminal operations
Cyrus Mistry's death has triggered a debate around road safety. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said the govt will enforce the rule that all travelers in a car, even on the rear seat, wear a seatbelt
Move likely to pave way for Concor's strategic sale
Gadkari called road accidents his biggest failure as the road minister
Looks to nearly treble NH toll revenue to Rs 1.4 trn in 2 yrs
Sector experts feel the court has cleared the air on an issue which saw multiple stands from high courts across the country
Coal freight revenue rose 42 per cent despite rains, floods during August
Previous government had banned earthwork for project, following an order by Pune Bench of NGT
Coal freight revenue rose 42 per cent despite rains, floods during August
Nitin Gadkari recently blamed poor planning as a major reason for road accidents in country
Its InvITs have a combined value of $3.8 billion and cover 33 assets in 22 states
Despite the port being exempted from Iranian sanctions for the development of Afghanistan and India's investment in the port, banks have been risk-averse
The railway ministry is now likely to wait for the new data protection bill before it takes any further decision on the monetisation plan