The government’s focus on maintaining existing highways and building complex projects pushed down actual highway construction and awards in the first nine months of FY25. But it could be a race to the budgetary finish line in the final three months of the financial year.
3 min read29 Jan 2025Highway and road sector may lead slowing of Centre’s capex spent on infrastructure projects in the current fiscal with Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) spending just 55% of record capex allotted to it In the first eight months of FY25.
4 min read17 Dec 2024India’s infrastructure strategy is set to get an unexpected twist: integrating military needs into civilian projects involving roads, ports, and airports. But it’s not only India’s defence preparedness that will benefit.
4 min read10 Nov 2024With contractors drawing fire, the Centre plans to standardise national highway contracts by including provisions contained in numerous circulars issued by the road transport ministry into schedule D of the contract document.
3 min read21 Sep 2024In a move which is expected to do away with long queues at highway toll points, the Centre has introduced an electronic toll collection mechanism through satellite-based systems.
1 min read10 Sep 2024Impending assembly elections and the reality of coalition politics seem to be influencing infrastructure development in India.
4 min read5 Sep 2024A committee, composed of officials from the ministry of road transport and highways, the ministry of new and renewable energy, including the principal scientific adviser to the government, and headed by Nitin Gadkari, will develop recommendations and an action plan to create hydrogen corridors.
5 min read15 Jul 2024The highway construction fell by12% to 1,288 kilometres in April-May from 1,465km in the year-ago period.The centre awarded only one 4km road project during the two months, compared to road projects of 382 km a year ago
2 min read28 Jun 2024The national highway network has risen 60% from 91,287 km in 2014 to 146,145 km in 2023 with the length of four lanes and above rising 2.5 times
2 min read28 May 2024The state-owned company built 6,644 km of national highways in FY24 against the target of 6,544 km. In FY23 it built 5,544 km of national highways.
1 min read2 Apr 2024The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared