Highways  

With a view to bettering road network, Uttarakhand will get 28 highway projects, worth Rs 1,210.17 crore

Union minister Nitin Gadkari honoured officials of ministry of road transport and highways for achieving the milestone of constructing 37kms of roads per day in 2020-21   
 

In the next 1 year, toll collection is all set to become GPS-based

Union minister for Road Transport and Highways and MSME Nitin Gadkari has appealed to car manufacturers to give priority to flex engines, which can be used in vehicles using alternative fuels such as ethanol
 

The National Highways Authority of India has awarded a contract for 150 advanced ambulances which will be deployed at all public funded toll plazas
 

 The construction of national highways in the year 2020 surpassed that of the year 2019

Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari announced that the entire nation will be free of toll plazas in the next two years
 

The first Multi-modal Logistic Park will come up at Jogighopa in Assam. Today, Union minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone

While the coronavirus lockdown period has kept everyone confined to their houses, National Highways Authority of India has used this period as a godsend to go digital
 

Our main focus should be on infrastructure investment and nation-building as they will help us revive the country

The Union Minister of State for HRD, Communications, and Electronics & Information Technology Sanjay Dhotre said that the Government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had sanctioned a development package of Rs. 80,000 crores for Jammu and Kashmir, which is enabling the opening of IIT, IIM, and AIIMs and allowing the development of highways, power generation, and irrigation projects.

Amitabh Bachchan expressed his thoughts at the launch of the Mission Paani campaign in the presence of Nitin Gadkari, minister of road transport and highways

LIC has offered us Rs 25,000 crore in a year and Rs 1.25 lakh crore in five years, said Union minister Nitin Gadkari
 

Two National Highways (NH) -- NH 10, that connects siliguri in West Bengal with Sikkim and NH 31, that connects Siliguri and Dooars in Jalpaiguri district -- have been closed. Two people died in landslides in the past few days in Pubung in Darjeeling district. Three more are feared dead as their car fell in the Teesta in the same district
 

In what comes as a refreshing news for owners of pubs and restaurants who were forced to relocate to destinations beyond a radius of 500 metres from national highways as per a Supreme Court verdict, the excise department officials have asked them to relocate to their original destinations