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We will bring vehicles that will run 100% on ethanol soon: Nitin Gadkari

Toyota will launch Camry in August this year which will run 100% on ethanol. The car will also generate 40% electric power

Truck operators raise heat over govt's air-conditioned cabin proposal

But commercial vehicle OEMs welcome the move, saying demand for AC trucks is already going up

Ministry of Transport proposes 15% insurance discount on school buses

The ministry and insurance regulator of India have proposed insurance discounts of 7.5-50% on motor insurance premium for select vehicles for financial year 2023-24

Rajasthan: Neem Ka Thana-Kotputli road to be built as a four-lane highway

The Rajasthan government has sanctioned Rs 178 crore to widen the Neem Ka Thana-Kotputli road to make it a four-lane highway. The state government is developing a high-quality road network in the state. For this, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved a financial proposal of Rs 178 crore for increasing the width of Neem Ka Thana-Kotputli road, an official statement said on Saturday. With this, a road divider will be constructed by making 4 lanes of 38 km-long road from Neem police station to Kotputli. In the state budget 2023-24, the chief minister had announced plans to convert this road into a four-lane highway. Meanwhile, the state government has also sanctioned Rs 14.25 crore for setting up sports academies in seven districts. Football academies will be set up in Kolida of Sikar and Banswara districts, a cycling academy will be developed in Bikaner, a wrestling academy in Bhilwara, an athletics academy in Rajgarh (Churu), and basketball academies in Barmer and Sikar

To maximise efficiency, RapidX will move cargo during non-peak hours

To this end, the depots of the RapidX transport system will have warehouses, and different trains will be deployed to transport cargo

Transport sector accounts for 40% of pollution, need greener fuel: Gadkari

Addressing the GH2 summit in Mumbai, the minister urged the industry to develop greener fuel alternatives to tackle the problem

Govt aims to reduce logistics cost to 9% of GDP: Nitin Gadkari at CII event

The government is going by certain estimates which suggest that logistics cost in India is in double digits

Top e-commerce platforms to stop selling seat belt alarm stopper clips

Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, Snapdeal, and Shopclues had this item listed for sale

Delhi govt working on food truck policy, will put for public feedback soon

The Delhi Government is working on its food truck policy which will be finalised within the next couple of months and put up for public feedback, officials said. According to officials, meetings have been planned with different stakeholders to discuss the various aspects of the policy. The stakeholders include the MCD, DMRC, traffic police and the Transport Department, they said. "We have identified metro stations and parking sites as hubs for setting up food trucks. But it will have to be seen under which category these trucks can be placed by the Transport department and also the rules governing their plying in Delhi, the official said. We will also need the Delhi Metro and the MCD to be on board since we plan to station these food trucks at metro stations and parking sites," he said. Explaining how the framework is likely to be, the official said that the food trucks will come and go from the site where they will be stationed. They will operate in the night hours -- between 8 p

Road transport sector contributes to max delayed projects: Govt report

The road transport and highways sector has the maximum number of delayed projects at 402, followed by railways at 115 and the petroleum industry at 86, showed a government report. In the road transport and highways sector, 402 out of 749 projects are delayed. For railways, out of 173 projects, 115 are delayed, while in the petroleum sector, 86 out of 145 projects are running behind schedule, as per the latest flash report on infrastructure projects for March 2023. The Infrastructure and Project Monitoring Division (IPMD) is mandated to monitor central sector infrastructure projects costing Rs 150 crore and above based on the information provided on the Online Computerised Monitoring System (OCMS) by the project implementing agencies. The IPMD comes under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The report showed that the Muneerabad-Mahaboobnagar rail project is the most delayed. It is delayed by 276 months. The second-most delayed project is the ...

Govt to set up helipads, drone landing facilities on highways: Gadkari

NHAI is developing world-class Wayside Amenities at more than 600 locations along the National Highways, said the the Minister for Road Transport and Highways in a statement

MoRTH plans to raise Rs 35,000 cr through asset monetisation in FY23

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) plans to raise Rs 35,000 crore through various modes of asset monetisation in this financial year, against Rs 32,855-crore target in the last fiscal, a senior government official said on Sunday. Currently, MoRTH monetises its assets under three different modes viz toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model, Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT) and project-based financing, in order to provide all categories of investors an opportunity to invest in assets pertaining to highways and associated infrastructure. Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT) is an instrument on the pattern of mutual funds, designed to pool money from investors and invest in assets that will provide cash flows over a period of time. Elaborating further, the official told PTI that while Rs 15,000 crore is planned to be raised in 2023-24 via project-based financing of high-speed corridors by securitising the future toll revenues without any guidance from the authority,

Anurag Jain appointed Road Transport Secretary as part of top level rejig

Senior IAS officer Anurag Jain has been appointed as Road, Transport and Highways Secretary as part of a top level bureaucratic reshuffle effected on Thursday by the Centre. Jain, a 1989-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, is currently Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. He succeeds Alka Upadhyaya, who has been appointment Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, according to a Personnel Ministry order. Upadhyaya has been appointed in place of Rajesh Kumar Singh, who is now Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in place of Jain. Saurabh Garg, Chief Executive Officer of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), will be Secretary, Department of Social Justice & Empowerment. Garg, a 1991-batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, has been appointed in place of Anjali Bhawra, who will now serve as Secretary, ...

Road Ministry targets construction of 12,500 km of highways in FY24

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has put plans in place to maintain the pace of highway development and construct 12,500 km of highways in the current financial year, a senior official on Wednesday said. Alka Upadhyaya, Secretary, MoRTH, said Rs 10,000 crore is planned to be raised through Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) mode in FY 2023-24. "MoRTH has put plans in place to maintain the pace of highway development, with a strong pipeline of projects across the country. "For 2023-24, MoRTH has taken up targets to award 12,000 km and construct 12,500 km of highways in the country," she told PTI. The road transport and highways ministry is yet to declare data on the construction and award of highway projects for 2022-23. The ministry has constructed 10,237 kilometres in 2019-20, 13,327 kilometres in 2020-21 and 10,457 kilometres in 2021-22. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Lt

MoRTH pumps in Rs 1.3 trn for highways, tunnels in J&K and Ladakh

A total of 41 significant tunnels are being constructed in J&K and Ladakh at a cost of Rs 45,000 crore, while 18 ropeways costing Rs 5,000 crore will be constructed in the UT

Construction of national highways at 10,993 kms in 2022-23, says MoRTH

The construction of national highways in 2022-23 was 10,993 kilometres, falling 13.70 per cent short of the government's target of 12,500 km, according to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) latest data. The ministry awarded highways of 12,375 km length in the last financial year. While the pace of the construction of national highways (NH) in the country touched a record high of 37 kilometre a day in 2020-21, it slowed to 30.11 kilometre a day in 2022-23. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL) are primarily responsible for the construction of national highways and expressways in India. The ministry said it had constructed 10,237 km in 2019-20, 13,327 km in 2020-21 and 10,457 km in 2021-22.

Govt catching up, plans to develop infra to assess new-tech vehicles

Latest technology vehicles refers to test vehicles that feature internet-enabled technologies

Road transport, highways sector has most delayed projects: Govt report

The road transport and highways sector has the maximum number of delayed projects at 407, followed by railways at 114 and the petroleum industry at 86, showed a government report. In the road transport and highways sector, 407 out of 717 projects are delayed. For railways, out of 173 projects, 114 are delayed, while in the petroleum sector, 86 out of 146 projects are running behind schedule, as per the latest flash report on infrastructure projects for February 2023. The Infrastructure and Project Monitoring Division (IPMD) is mandated to monitor central sector infrastructure projects costing Rs 150 crore and above based on the information provided on the Online Computerised Monitoring System (OCMS) by the project implementing agencies. The IPMD comes under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The report showed that the Muneerabad-Mahaboobnagar rail project is the most delayed. It is delayed by 276 months. The second-most delayed project is the ...

Centre approves Rs 318 cr for Tanakpur-Pithoragarh all-weather road

The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has allocated Rs 318 crore for the construction of 150-km-long Tanakpur-Pithoragarh all-weather road. NHAI Executive Engineer Sunil Kumar said the approval has been given for the construction of the road on NH-9 which will be done in four phases. "We will first repair 49 landslide-prone spots on the strategically important road so that landslides can be prevented from happening and the road can stay open even during the monsoon," Kumar said. He said the proposal has been finalised on the basis of a report prepared by expert agency THDL, which has been appointed the supervisor for the project by the ministry. The central government had in 2016 approved the Tanakpur-Pithoragarh stretch, which is part of the bigger road project traversing the 'Char Dham' pilgrim spots being built at the cost of Rs 12,000 crore.

More than 278,000 EVs registered in India in Jan-March 2023: Gadkari

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said more than 2.78 lakh electric vehicles have been registered in the country in 2023 calendar year so far. Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are in the process of migrating to Vahan portal and hence their data on EV registration is partially included while Telangana and Lakshadweep data is not available on the portal, Gadkari said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. According to the data on the portal, the registration of electric vehicles (EVs) in India rose to 10,20,679 in 2022 from 3,29,808 in 2021. Replying to a separate question, Gadkari said National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has planted 344.27 lakh tress under Green Highways Policy during the period 2016-17 to 2022-23 (up to February 2023). Responding to another question, he said NHAI envisions development of wayside amenities (WSAs) at every 30-40 kilometre across brownfield national highways and greenfield expressways. Till date, 156 WSAs ha