New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has issued a draft notification proposing a major overhaul of the Pollution Under Control Certificate (PUCC) validity and renewal system. The proposed new rules significantly ease the compliance burden for newer, cleaner vehicles while tightening testing frequencies for older, more polluting vehicles. In the case of BS-VI private vehicles that are up to 6 years old, the PUCC validity has been extended from one year to …
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Mumbai, July 27 (IANS) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has approached the Bombay High Court with a defamation suit against alleged AI-generated deepfake videos and misleading social media posts linking him and his family to the Centre’s E20 ethanol blending policy.The High Court has admitted the petition and scheduled a hearing on Gadkari’s plea seeking interim relief. The plea has sought injunction against the circulation of the disputed content.Gadkari has made soc…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The government’s approval for the Rs 7,145 crore Kanpur-Kabrai access-controlled highway is expected to significantly strengthen logistics, industrial connectivity and agricultural market access across Bundelkhand while reducing travel time and transportation costs in Central India, according to an official statement on Saturday.The 117.7-km greenfield highway that was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) will be developed by the National Highway…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Aiming to decongest Delhi, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has taken up projects with an aggregate length of 2,105 km costing Rs 1.04 lakh crore, Minister Nitin Gadkari said in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Replying to a question by BJP’s South Delhi MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri in Lok Sabha, Gadkari said the plan also includes projects for decongestion of the National Capital’s southern areas.The projects planned include a six-lane greenfield corridor from DND …
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The proposed upgradation of the Khagaria–Purnea section of NH‑31 and NH‑231 to a four‑lane highway by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, recently approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), is poised to propel Bihar’s agricultural heartland on the path to prosperity, according to a government factsheet issued on Sunday. Before dawn breaks over the fertile plains of Bihar, trucks loaded with bunches of bananas leave the farms of Khag…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The proposed upgradation of the Khagaria–Purnea section of NH-31 and NH-231 to a four-lane highway by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, recently approved by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is poised to propel Bihar’s agricultural heartland on the path to prosperity, according to an government factsheet issued on Sunday.Before dawn breaks over the fertile plains of Bihar, trucks loaded with bunches of bananas leave the farms of Khagaria, while…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Delhi Transport Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh said on Monday that the Rekha Gupta government has initiated the process to implement the Central government’s ‘Naya Safar Yojana’ to replace old, polluting trucks and buses. Pankaj Kumar Singh said the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways’ (MoRTH), Government of India’s scheme to support the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) for the replacement of old trucks and buses operating in Delhi-NCR is aimed at provi…
Gandhinagar, July 9 (IANS) Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday that the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has begun pilot hydrogen mobility projects on 10 transport corridors across India as part of its efforts to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels and promote cleaner public transport. Speaking after inaugurating ‘Prawas 5.0’, the multimodal transport show organised by the Bus and Car Operators Confederation of India (BOCI) in Gandhinagar, Gadk…
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) As India embarks on an infrastructure-led growth, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has emerged as a key enabler, creating structured pathways that connect engineering education with meaningful professional opportunities in the national highway sector, it was announced on Tuesday.Fuelled by the infrastructure growth, engineering has seen a resurgence of interest among the budding engineers.As opportunities to contribute to nation-building through large-scal…
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The government on Thursday clarified that a road surface cave-in observed on the Delhi-Dehradun Economic Corridor was the result of localised water stagnation following rainfall, coupled with constraints in commissioning the permanent cross-drainage system at the location.The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) observed a road surface cave-in observed at Km 55+480 on the Delhi–Dehradun Economic Corridor during routine route patrolling in the early hours on July…