Highways News
The minister urged the participants to continue collaborating, innovating and accelerating, ensuring that India's infrastructure remains the backbone of its economic development.
The government is also formulating a scheme to provide cashless treatment to victims of road accidents caused by the use of motor vehicles.
To ensure the highest construction standards, cost-effectiveness and timely completion of National Highway projects, NHAI has set up a Detailed Project Report (DPR) cell at NHAI headquarters in New Delhi
The study reveals children who lived at least a thousand metres away from heavily used highways had a decreased risk of developing atopic dermatitis than those who lived within 500 metres.
Impressed by the newly-inaugurated Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, Anand Mahindra lauded Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Twitter for such scenic road infrastructure of the country.
Haridwar traffic police make a ‘big traffic plan’ to overcome jams
To implement this new rule from December 1
Haridwar traffic police bans e-rickshaw from highways
Odisha government is planning to set up truck terminals along national and state highways
State transport department has identified six locations for truck terminals
Objectives of developing truck terminals are to reduce accidents
Union minister Nitin Gadkari, in a recent statement, said that the amount of work done in building roads in 8 years wasn't done in the last 65 years.
As per NCRB data over 1.55 lakh lives were lost in road crashes in 2021
Based on NCRB 18 people lose lives in every single hour road crashes
The step is supposed to increase road safety
The helipads will help in emergencies
They will also be helpful in increasing connectivity
The government is also considering starting Air Ambulance service
At the 62nd annual session of SIAM, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari asked automobile manufacturers to sell quality-centric products and to cut down on imports.
People will be able to reach Delhi from Srinagar in just 8 hours, says Nitin Gadkari
Govt has taken up several infrastructure projects to improve connectivity
Such projects will increase connectivity between the two cities
Rail connectivity will improve tourism in the region
National highway connectivity has also witnessed unprecedented work in the last few years
It will provide the youth with employment opportunities
PM Modi on May 27, 2018, inaugurated the Rs 11,000-crore Eastern Peripheral Expressway.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said that government plans to develop 2 lakh km of highways and 12 expressways across the country.
In March, the Supreme Court had banned sale of liquor within 500 metres of state and national highways including in bars, pubs and restaurants.
The Punjab Council of Ministers had, on June 19, approved the proposal to amend the state excise act.
Ahead of the state budget, the Punjab Council of Ministers (CoM), led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, on Monday gave its nod to remove hotels, restaurants and clubs from the restrictions on serving of liquor within 500 meters of highways.
In a bid to avoid closure of liquor shops in the state in the wake of a Supreme Court order, the Odisha government has renamed the state highways passing through cities and towns as `urban roads`.
"We are planning to meet the tourism minster to apprise him of the enormous losses to both states and to the industry," NRAI President Riyaaz Amlani told PTI.
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