Roads & Bridges

Expressway development has been a focus area for the government ever since the launch of the National Highways Development Programme. While Phase VI of the programme envisaged the development of 1,000 km of expressways, on-ground […]

After the opening of the landmark Chenani-Nashri tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir, the state has yet another iconic structure in the making – the Zojila tunnel – which has been proposed to surpass the former’s […]

The year 2017-18 has been a significant one for the road sector. While the period from 2014 to 2016 was utilised for the purpose of reform and course correction, 2017 witnessed consolidation and culmination of […]

Lauded as India’s largest highway construction project after the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP), the Bharatmala Pariyojana is a new umbrella programme for the highways sector focused on optimising the efficiency of freight and passenger […]

Launched in 2001, the Karnataka State Highways Improvement Project (KSHIP) is an initiative of the Public Works Department of the Karnataka government for the improvement of the state’s road network. In the years leading up to the […]

At a recent conference on Operations, Maintenance and Tolling in the Road Sector organised by India Infrastructure, L.P. Padhy, Chief General Manager, Technical, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), spoke about the need for asset […]

Aimed at revolutionising the country’s tolling system, the pan-Indian deployment of electronic tolling (e-tolling) is expected to improve the operational efficiency of road assets, eventually leading to cost savings and a smoother traffic flow. At […]

At a recent conference on “Road Development in India” organised by India Infrastructure, Sanjay Jaju, director, administration and finance, National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL), spoke about the status of road development in […]

The past year has been a significant one for the road sector. The gradual shift from focusing only on project award to initiating measures for faster project turnaround was quite noticeable. The Ministry of Road […]

At the India PPP Summit 2017, Nitin Gadkari, union minister, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), shared his views on how the public-private partnership (PPP) model is instrumental in accelerating infrastructure development in the […]

At a recent conference on “Road Development in India” organised by India Infrastructure, Leena Nandan, additional secretary and financial adviser, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) spoke about how the government has tried to […]

The road sector has witnessed a surge in activity in the past three years. National highway projects covering about 34,000 km were awarded between 2014-15 and 2016-17, almost double the length awarded in the preceding […]