Roads and Bridges

The cabinet has been apprised of amendments made to the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019, as passed by the Rajya Sabha. The amendments will ensure concurrence of the state governments while formulating the National Transport […]

NHAI has reportedly downsized Bundle IV of the toll-operate-transfer model by about Rs 20 billion, reducing the initial estimated concession value to Rs 21.65 billion. Besides, the concession period of the bundle has now been […]

NHAI has proposed changes in regulatory guidelines for allocating road projects under the build-operate-transfer model to revive private sector investment. Towards this, the authority has invited suggestions from road developers, lenders, bankers, industry bodies and […]

Reportedly, the central government has relaxed its rules for the roll-out of the mandatory FASTag mechanism of making payments at national highways, allowing more hybrid lanes to accept cash payments instead of the previous directive […]

The MoRTH is likely to award road projects worth Rs 500 billion, spanning an aggregate length of 4,471 km, in the next three months. As of April 2019, it had awarded 168 road projects covering […]

The MoRTH has postponed the date of compulsory implementation of FASTag on national highway toll plazas to December 15, 2019. The earlier date was December 1, 2019. Double user fee will charged from vehicles that […]

Reportedly, NHAI has decided to rework and delay the tendering process for projects under TOT Bundle III, seeking to entice bigger domestic investors. The authority is expected to remove some road stretches under this bundle, […]

The CCEA has accorded approval to the amendments proposed in the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model by NHAI. As per the amendments, publicly funded national highway projects that are operational and have a toll revenue generation history […]

Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu was appointed chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on October 28, 2019. He is an IAS officer of the 1988 batch, Uttarakhand cadre, and has held important positions […]

NHAI has invited bids for Bundle IV under the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model, with a bid submission date of January 14, 2019. Besides, the authority has set an initial estimated concession value of Rs 41.7 billion for […]

Several road agencies under state governments have signed MoUs with NHAI to allow the use of FASTag to pay toll charges on state roads. These agencies include Uttar Pradesh Expressway Industrial Development Authority Limited, the […]

Reportedly, NHAI is planning to prioritise land acquisition for projects that are set to be awarded over the next two-three years in order to fast-track the execution of economically viable road projects. The authority has […]

About 20 per cent of the construction work has been completed on the Mumbai-Nagpur Communication Expressway project. The project involves the construction of a 701 km communication expressway from Nagpur to Mumbai, passing through Ghoti, […]

The 22 km Dasna-Hapur section of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway (Package III) was inaugurated on September 30, 2019. Besides, the Ghazipur-Dasna section of the expressway (Package II) is expected to be completed in the next three […]

NHAI has identified projects worth Rs 300 billion to be implemented through the public-private partnership mode on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) (toll) basis. The road stretches, spanning 950 km across Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil […]

NHAI has further extended the request for proposal bid due date for nine road sections under the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) Bundle III from September 30, 2019 to October 30, 2019. Bids for the same were issued […]

Reportedly, the government is considering a plan to remove the bank guarantee clause from road contracts based on the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode to resume a number of stalled projects as part of […]

The 133.38 km Chennai Peripheral Road project has received coastal regulation zone clearance from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu government is fast-tracking the process of diversion of forest […]

The central government is planning to issue a set of guidelines for allocating road projects on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis to ensure a certain level of preparedness prior to awarding projects, as it seeks to […]

The central government has put on hold all new announcements as well as in-principle approvals already given to numerous state roads to be declared as national highways until a high-level interministerial panel approves a new […]