Tag: NHAI
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Orissa HC asks NHAI head to cross busy highway with 2 school children
The High Court would conduct the next hearing on 13 March where the NHAI chief would have to produce the video clip of the attempt to cross the highway with school children.
January 17, 2023 -
NHAI imparting training to its engineers in road safety audit
Road Safety Week: The completion of this 15-day training has been made a key criterion for promotions of engineers to posts of manager and deputy general manager.
January 16, 2023 -
NHAI starts accepting electronic bank guarantees
Aiming to improve the efficiency and transparency of internal processes and take forward the adoption of digital technology, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has started accepting Electronic Bank Guarantees (E-BGs) and has also digitalised all its existing Bank Guarantees.
November 2, 2022 -
Gadkari stresses on collaboration among stakeholders for qualitative reforms in transportation sector
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday emphasized on collaboration amongst all stakeholders for qualitative reforms in the transportation sector.
September 8, 2022 -
Odisha Govt directs NHAI to expedite NH repair
The condition of NH-55 stretch from Banarpala to the Angul industrial town has gone from bad to worse much to the inconvenience of motorists, bikers and pedestrians.
July 20, 2022 -
NHAI enters Guinness World Record: Lays 75 km highway in less than Five days
In Maharashtra, a stretch of roadway between Amravati and Akola was completed in 105 hours and 33 minutes, breaking the previous world record.
June 9, 2022 -
NHAI sets new world record; builds 75 km highway in just over 100 hours
To complete the job in the lowest amount of time, up to 800 personnel and 700 workers participated, including highway engineers, safety engineers, and surveyors.
June 8, 2022 -
Labour minister leads cycle rally to press for underpasses, service roads
The minister threatened to scale up his protests if the demands are not met. “This is the initial stage of our peaceful protest. If the demands remain unfulfilled, we will go in for further protests,” he said. He said that state chief minister Mamata Banerjee had written to road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari but no action had been taken.
March 22, 2022 -
NHAI Developer asked to provide Electric charging stations along highways
The NHAI has already awarded 39 such facilities and the proposals for 103 such sites are at the bidding stage. Authority would add more WSA sites as and when it is identified, the Minister said.
December 2, 2021 -
NHAI plants 2.23 crore plants to compensate ecological loss due to road building
National Highway Authority of India has planted over 2.23 crore plants all over the country
December 2, 2021 -
HC notice to Himachal, NHAI over frequent landslides
A division bench of acting Chief Justice Ravi Malimath and Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua passed the order on a petition of Namita Maniktala, treating it as public interest litigation.
September 10, 2021 -
Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari inaugurate Emergency Landing Facility for IAF planes
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has developed the 3-km section of the Satta-Gandhav stretch of NH-925 as an ELF for the IAF.
September 9, 2021 -
Delhi-Jaipur flyover tender to be floated by mid-September
Preparations have been made to float a tender for flyovers from Manesar to Bilaspur to Masani Barrage and Banipur Chowk in Bawal. The tenders will be opened by mid-September.
September 9, 2021 -
Repair highway along the mineral-rich belt: Orissa HC directs NHAI
Despite the poor condition of the road, the NHAI continues to arbitrarily collect toll cess from three toll plazas in violation of Rule-8 of the National Highway Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008, the petition had pointed out.
August 20, 2021 -
Drone survey mandatory for National Highway projects
video recording via drones need to be done by contractors in the presence of the team leader of the supervising consultant and upload project videos on NHAI's portal 'Data Lake'
June 16, 2021 -
NHAI to make network survey vehicle use mandatory for road condition survey
The deployment will help in enhancing the overall quality of the highways as NSV uses the latest survey techniques such as a high-resolution digital camera for 3600 imagery, Record images/videos at regular intervals, Laser Road Profilometer and other related technology for the measurement of distresses in the road surface.
April 13, 2021 -
Easier FASTag: NHAI removes requirement of maintaining minimum amount in FASTag account, wallet
Issuer banks were unilaterally mandating some threshold amount value for the FASTag account/wallet, in addition to the security deposit amount.
February 10, 2021