The tightening of bidding norms by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) through requirement of additional performance security (APS) will ease competitive pressure in Central Government Road projects, said credit rating agency ICRA.
The Secretary of MoRTH appeared before a bench of Justices Abhay S Okay and AG Masih and undertook that the said provisions regarding the scheme, which was brought in by the government authority in April, 2022, will now be notified and implemented.
In view of the multiple reports claiming that FASTags will be replaced by a satellite-based tolling system from May 1, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on Friday issued a clarification, refuting these claims. the ministry confirmed that no such decision has been made.
Project Abhay, designed and developed by the Centre for Rural Development & Technology (CRDT), IIT Delhi, in collaboration with Foresight Foundation and supported by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), aims to enhance the health, vision, and safety of India's truck dri
By the end of FY25, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) aims to operationalize 4,827 km of high-speed corridors, having already reached 4,693 km by December 2024.
The Network Planning Group (NPG) under PM Gati Shakti in its 85th meeting assessed five projects (2 railways and 3 projects of highway development) from and Ministry of Railways (MR) and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH).
The Network Planning Group (NPG) under PM Gati Shakti in its 81st meeting assessed five infrastructure projects from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) .
Anurag Jain, Secretary, Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways, clarified that there has been no change in National Highway policy and that the toll for the first 20 kilometres will remain free.
Toll collection will shift to a "Pay as You Use" model, once Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based tolling system becomes operational, where the user fee will be calculated based on the distance travelled on the highway, as tracked by the GNSS-based Electronic Toll Collection (E
The National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP), developed by Niti Aayog in consultation with concerned ministries, aims to monetize assets over a four-year period starting from FY22, with assets totaling Rs 6 lakh crore earmarked for monetization.
The 72nd meeting of the Network Planning Group (NPG) evaluated three major infrastructure projects under the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan (NMP), a national master plan for multi-modal connectivity, that brings 16 ministries, including railways and roadways together for integrated p
According to a press release by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the meeting, held in New Delhi, evaluated three projects from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and two projects from the Ministry of Railways (MoR), with a focus on integrated planning and regional soci