Red 'table-top' markings for forest highways on cardsIn a bold move to safeguard wildlife, the government is set to implement standardized red markings along national highways that traverse fo...
19 Feb, 2026, 12.32 AM IST
‘Mai hi kyu gaali khaun’: Nitin Gadkari orders babus to put QR codes on highways with contractor and officers' detailsUnion Minister Nitin Gadkari has asked officials to put QR codes on national highway projects and YouTube updates for transparency. This in...
30 Oct, 2025, 10.10 AM IST
NHAI, highway builders to have own YouTube channels for project updatesThe road transport ministry has mandated NHAI and highway developers to launch YouTube channels for uploading project videos and seeking pu...
29 Oct, 2025, 12.45 PM IST
Road ministry to adopt AIMC technology to construct highways: Nitin GadkariAddressing a stakeholder consultation, organised by the National Highways Authority of India, on the automated and intelligent machine-aide...
31 Jan, 2025, 01.18 PM IST
Road ministry to automate highway constructionIndia's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will pilot Automated & Intelligent Machine aided Construction (AIMC) on select expressways....
16 Dec, 2024, 10.13 PM IST
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. ...
08 Jan, 2023, 12.03 PM IST
Highway construction companies seek curbs on steel exports as domestic prices surgeIndustry experts said the capital cost of highway projects could rise by up to 10% on the back of surging steel prices and emerge as a seri...
03 Jun, 2021, 01.39 PM IST
NHAI plans 5,000 km roads per year“We are looking at bottlenecks in the system,” the official told ET. “We need to increase our construction to 5,000 km per year. For that l...
02 Mar, 2021, 07.05 AM IST
NHAI working to identify bottlenecks to speed up road constructionThe biggest issue is receiving permission from states to begin construction work, while forest clearances remain a concern as well, a senio...
01 Mar, 2021, 02.25 PM IST
Government may allow highway construction work to resume after April 14In a meeting held on Wednesday, Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari asked officials to explore ways to restart cons...
08 Apr, 2020, 09.37 PM IST
NHAI seeks flexibility in mode of project award, to focus on EPCUnder HAM, the government provides 40% of the construction cost. The rest is arranged by the developer. Land acquisition and toll collectio...
28 Jan, 2020, 10.08 AM IST
Roads ministry to raise Rs 15,000 crore from EPFOA govt official told that the ministry plans to issue NHAI bonds to the EPFO in three tranches at an interest rate of 8.3% per annum.
31 Aug, 2017, 12.06 AM IST
User satisfaction index for National Highways on cardsThe road transport and highways ministry plans to make first rankings, based on continuous data collection through a mobile application and...
08 Jul, 2016, 06.58 AM IST
Rising cost of land a major roadblock in national highway expansionUnder the new land acquisition law, the government has to pay twice the price of land in urban areas and four times the price of land in ru...
28 Mar, 2016, 01.26 AM IST
Road Ministry in talks with EPFO to raise Rs 50,000 crore for highway expansion projectsThe ministry has offered its toll guarantee to the EPFO. It is in final talks for a similar deal with state-run Life Insurance Corporation ...
15 Mar, 2016, 06.43 AM IST
Food courts, dispensaries & malls to dot National Highways soonThe government has issued a policy for such facilities to be built under public-private partnership and engineering, construction and procu...
08 Mar, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
- Govt lets road builders hike cost up to 20%
Cost Of 60 projects launched in 2006 & 2007 to be revised, move aimed at helping developers borrow from banks.
20 Dec, 2008, 12.36 AM IST