road construction

News

ROAD CONSTRUCTION NEWS

We must build — and we must know how to build — public goods such as roads, bridges, railways, airports, buildings for schools, colleges, hospitals and offices, etc. for growth.

P Chidambaram writes: How to build, how to grow

July 13, 2025 2:27 pm

Public construction, especially of nationally important projects, do not suffer from constraints of land or money. But what do we see happening? Highways and new roads cave in; sewer lines burst flooding the road

Kaimbwala village, Chandigarh, Road construction, Substandard materials, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Municipal Corporation, Aam Aadmi Party, AAP, Ward Number-1, Jaswinder Kaur

In Kaimbwala village: UT AAP, BJP councillors spar over ‘bad road work material’

October 29, 2023 10:23 am

Saturday morning, AAP leaders reached the spot and said even the area councillor was not informed about the road construction work.

Now use of plastic waste a must to construct roads at Baddi

October 13, 2023 8:40 am

Talking to the Indian Express, Lalit Jain, Chief Executive Officer, BBNDA said that an experiment was done by the development authority with the technical assistance of Central Road Research Institution, in which 2 per cent of the total bitumen was mixed with plastic shredded waste, like plastic packets, plastic bottles, which are first shredded, cleaned and washed and then mixed in the bitumen.

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said his ministry is finalising a policy for use of municipal waste in road construction.

Transport ministry finalising policy for using municipal waste in road construction: Nitin Gadkari

September 28, 2023 4:03 pm

Addressing a press conference, Nitin Gadkari said the government is considering offering incentives to construction equipment manufacturers for not using fossil fuels.

Karnataka: Another road peels off in Shivamogga, second incident in four months

October 11, 2022 7:03 am

The 5.13km road was built four months ago at a cost of Rs 4.4 crore, according to villagers, who have demanded it be relaid.

At de-addiction event, Chhattisgarh education minister suggests liquor unites people, calls for 'dilution'

September 02, 2022 2:16 am

Premsai Singh Tekam, the Congress MLA from Pratappur, quoted from noted poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan's 'Madhushala' to make his point.

Road construction, Steel use in Road projects, Steel use in bridge projects, Nitin Gadkari, Transport minister, steel from recycled scrap, Indian express news

Centre set to allow steel from recycled scrap to be used in road, bridge projects

February 01, 2021 4:21 am

“It was decided that as long as the steel from recycled scrap and such sources meets the BIS standard, there should be no problem in using them in the projects,” said a senior official.

HG Infra shares zoom 11 per cent as company bags highway project

December 27, 2019 2:58 pm

HG Infra has been declared L-1 (lowest) bidder by NHAI for construction of proposed Rewari bypass (NH-11) as feeder route in Rewari district in the state of Haryana...on hybrid annuity mode amounting to Rs 522.02 crore, the company said in a filing to the BSE on Thursday.

Dilip Buildcon bags Rs 1,362 crore road project in Uttar Pradesh

December 24, 2019 11:25 am

In a regulatory filing, Dilip Buildcon Ltd said that it has executed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement on December 20, 2019 with the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) for the said project.