Surat: Gujarat High Court on Friday issued a notice to the union government and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) regarding a PIL over toll rates on National Highway 8. The All India Motor Transport Congress and Gujarat truck transport association have filed a PIL expressing discontent with the decision to maintain high toll rates on the Bharuch-Surat and Surat-Dahisar stretches of NH8. The petitioners have argued that after the completion of the concession period, toll tax rates ...Read More

Rajkot: Gujarat Chief Minister will dedicate a flyover bridge at Gondal chokdi in Rajkot today. The bride has been constructed at a cost of Rs. 90 crore. It is the first 1.2 km long six-lane elevated overbridge. The bridge will offer relief to thousands of commuters who regularly face the traffic-jam situation at Gondal chokdi. The Chief Minister during his visit to the city will also attend the loan fair at the Police headquarters. He will virtually attend Mahila sammelan. He will kick off Glob...Read More

Gandhinagar: During the visit of union minister for Roads and Transport Nitin Gadkari in Gujarat, the ministry has shared a note titled as  'Brief for projects being implemented by NHAI & State R&B (NH) In the State of  Gujarat Status as on date 19th January 2023'. Presented below is the note in full text:  Since its independence, India has made tremendous progress across various sectors including infrastructure and it’s no surprise that we have grown to become the world’s fift...Read More

Aravalli: The merchants and locals of Shamlaji gathered at Ahmedabad-Udaipur National Highway No. 8 to protest against the national highway authority alleging that the recent flooding in the town was caused due to no arrangement of water disposal. The construction of six lane Ahmedabad-Udaipur National Highway no. 8 connecting Delhi and Mumbai is ongoing in slow pace. The highway is built by cutting the hills near Shamlaji. The locals alleged that the rainwater flooded the houses and markets...Read More

Mehsana: Land acquisition for the Ahmedabad-Tharad express way being developed as part of the center’s Bharatmala project has started facing lot of opposition from local farmers of Mehsana district. Farmers from 40 villages of the district held a rally against the process of land acquisition for the express way and also submitted a memorandum to the district collector against it. The memorandum mentions that there is an urgent need to resolve 11 issues with regards to land acquisition. If t...Read More

Gandhinagar: Minister of Roads & Building Purnesh Modi informed that the central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved works of 34 national highways in Gujarat at a cost of Rs 3760.64 crore. Cabinet Minister Purnesh Modi thanked PM Modi and Union minister of road transport Nitin Gadkari for the same, on behalf of Gujarat public. He said that the annual plan of Rs 3760.64 crore for national highways' works in Gujarat is approved for the year 2022-23 which includes Rs 251...Read More

Palanpur: Deesa town will soon get a 3.7 km long over bridge, perhaps the longest elevated corridor in Gujarat over National Highway number 27 (previously NH-14), a stretch of East-West corridor connecting Porbandar and Assam. The elevated corridor which is soon going to be opened for traffic, has four lanes on each upper and lower side in addition to two lanes of service road. Rs. 222 crore bridge is 3.750 km long and as much as 10,500 tons of steel has been used in its construction. It has bee...Read More

New Delhi: The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) said it has created a record by constructing 534 km of National Highways (NHs) in the last week commencing 8 January. The Ministry said it has constructed 8,169 km of National Highways (NHs) from April 2020 to 15 January 2021 in the current financial year 2020-21, i.e. with a speed of about 28.16 km per day. During the same period in the last fiscal, 7,573 km roads were constructed, with a speed of 26.11 km per day. The Ministry ...Read More