Page 10 - Highways

Can more highway fuel pumps significantly boost road ministry revenues?

Gadkari said last week that a revenue-sharing model for these outlets could be worked out under which the road ministry earns Rs 1.25 on the sale of every litre of petrol and diesel from those outlets

Highways cancelled from road monetisation to be on bidding table again

NHAI is yet to set a timeline for fresh rounds of auction since the announcement of dates for general elections is likely to happen any time

65,000-km highways worth Rs 5.35 trillion to be built by 2022, says Gadkari

Already, 137 road projects having an aggregate length of about 6,530 kms have been awarded and are in various stages of implementation

Govt shifts to new formula: To show highway construction in better light

Lane-km to replace linear length method in line with international norms

Better fund flow boosts margins in highways' hybrid-annuity model projects

A highway contract that earlier took 24 months for completion is being completed in about 14 months

Govt funding still rules highways

Nitin Gadkari said government would continue with its focus on EPC because it helps contracting companies to increase liquidity

Highway projects gain momentum as ministries meet

Nitin Gadkari met Manohar Parrikar to discuss issue of transfer of defence land for highways

Removing the roadblocks to building highways

Business Standard looks at how govt will revive investment in highways sector

Gadkari meets bankers to get up highway projects

Gadkari met the chairmen and managing directors of banks including ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, SBI and Axis Bank

Investment pick-up in highways slipping on legal wrangles

The National Highway-24 project has been delayed by at least five years

Govt urges farmers to join hands for greening of highways

Mansukh Lal Mandaviya urges for greater public participation, especially of farmers, in development and maintenance of highways

Reforms cut risk, drive up highway construction: CRISIL

High-risk projects decline 13%, pace of execution to double in two years

22 highway stretches across country may double up as airstrips

Nitin Gadkari said his Ministry is shortly going to convene a meeting with the Defence Ministry to firm up the proposal

Solid waste from Ghazipur site to help make national highway

NHAI would install a unit at the site to segregate and process the garbage that would be mixed with bitumen for use in the roads

Govt approves Rs 1,911-crore highway projects in six states

Arunachal Pradesh will also see a stretch to be widened at a cost of Rs 44 crore

HC direction to state highways dept

G Thamarai had filed a public interest litigation seeking a direction to the state highways department to survey and construct road bridges

NHAI in pact with banks for funds to revive projects

Agreement with State Bank of India, others to revive and complete 3 comatose schemes

China keen to invest in highway projects in India

Delegation from China Railway Construction Corp, led by its Chief Economist Zhao Jinuha meets NHAI Chairman

Land acquisition for Rs 30,000 cr Mumbai-Nagpur highway to begin soon

Compensation includes return of developed land, allotment of land pool ownership certificate and residential & commercial plots

Interlinking of highways on anvil

Centre's proposal aims to interlink highways from North to South and East to West in the pattern of a grid