Cabinet approves widening of NH-63 Armoor-Mancherial section under Hybrid Annuity ModelThe government has approved significant road development projects in Telangana. The Armoor-Jagtial-Mancherial section of NH-63 will be wide...
Keyboards losing ground fast as voice AI takes rootEngineers and founders are ditching keyboards for AI voice commands as speed and convenience reshape workflows. Swathi Moorthy decodes the ...
Road ministry raises construction timelines for NH projects to up to six yearsThese normative construction periods will be applicable for all national highway projects to be bid out either on engineering, procurement,...
Road Ministry looks to reboot build-operate-transfer rulesThe Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is revisiting its Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model concession agreement due to the limited su...
Cabinet approves eight National High-Speed Road Corridor projects worth Rs 50,655 croreThe cabinet approved eight National High-Speed Road Corridor Projects spanning 936 km at a cost of Rs. 50,655 Crore to boost logistics effi...
NHAI to offer Rs 44,000 cr worth of BOT road projects in FY25; PPP mode may return to fast laneThe National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) plans to offer 15 road projects valued at Rs 44,000 crore, covering 900 km, under the build...
Samakhiyali Tollway to execute highway project in Gujarat at Rs 2,100 crore: IRB"Samakhiyali Tollway Private Limited has successfully achieved financial closure for its Samakhiyali Santalpur BOT highway project in Gujar...
MoRTH confident of achieving highway construction target of 12,000 km this fiscal: Secretary Alka UpadhyayaThe ministry has constructed 4,766 km of National Highways up to November 2022-23 compared to 5,1.18 km constructed till November 2021-22. ...
Road projects have to be built on EPC mode, response on PPP tepid: Nitin GadkariThe government should opt for building projects on EPC mode, and monetising them, instead of depending on the private sector to bring funds...
BOT no more: Is the Build-Operate-Transfer model of road developing dead?Participation in BOT projects — where private developers build a road using their own funds, operate it and then transfer it to the govt af...
Road projects on BOT mode struggle to take off as govt yet to frame guidelinesThe guidelines are being re-drawn with an aim to make BOT projects more investor-friendly as the government looks to revive private investm...
NHAI identifies projects worth Rs 30,000 cr to be offered on PPP modeThe NHAI has identified various stretches on a pan-India basis that will be constructed through the PPP mode on the build-operate-transfer ...
New norms likely for BoT road projects to lure private investorsNHAI has already recommended changes in the BOT framework which are now being reviewed by the highways ministry.
NHAI may revert to build-transfer-operate model: IcraThe rating agency, in its earlier observation, said that it has already highlighted the importance of speeding up the TOT awards and other ...
Government approves Rs 7,457 crore highway projects in 11 statesThe projects are in Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam...
NHAI to award projects for 5,300 km of roads in FY 15-16: Satish Chandra, Member (Finance)"Last year, 700 kms were awarded under BOT mode and the remaining 2,400 kilometres under EPC mode. It was nearly double the achievement of ...
- 'EPC mode of road building to enable faster execution'
Engineering, Procurement & Construction in road building 'will minimise, if not eliminate, the time & cost over-runs', C P Joshi said.