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An astronaut’s photo reveals a giant chessboard-like forest in Idaho. Snow and a 200-year-old grid-based management system create the striking pattern, highlighting human impact and nature’s surprising designs from space.
The report showed that the Muneerabad-Mahaboobnagar rail project is the most delayed. It is delayed by 276 months.
In the road transport and highways sector, 262 out of 835 projects are delayed.
Addressing an event organised by National Highways Infra Trust, Gadkari said that of the additional fundraise, around Rs 1,500 crores are being garnered through an issue of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) with a long-dated maturity of 24 years.
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) alerted the road ministry of possible cyber attacks on the sector.
Transport vehicles older than eight years could be taxed at the rate of 10 percent to 25 percent of road tax, at the time of renewal of fitness certificate.
The project holds strategic significance as Zojila Pass is situated at an altitude of 11,578 feet on the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh National Highway and remains closed during winters due to heavy snowfall.
"Detailed project report for the expressway will be finalised soon and Bhoomi Pujan will be done as early as possible," Gadkari said.
Although interest rates have come down now, the moratorium has made the outlook for the NBFC sector uncertain, says Umesh Revankar
Truckers say there is no unloading at ports like Mundra, Kandla, JNPT. Containers have piled up as industries are closed.
A total 6,604 km of highways has been constructed during the April-February period against the target of 15,000 km for the full fiscal, Parliament was informed today.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is planning to ramp up its road construction speed to 30 KM per day from the current 22 KM per day by the end of March.
Stressing the idea of 'waste to wealth', Gadkari said Pune can become a hub for the alternative fuel sources and exhorted the industrialists and industry bodies to conduct research in bio-fuels.
The Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister was addressing the 17th Regulators and Policymakers Retreat organised by The Independent Power Producers Association of India in South Goa.
Road Transport and Highways Ministry is considering a Rs 4,000 crore overhaul of around 80 border check posts across the country to ensure seamless flow of goods ahead of the implementation of GST.
The ministry previously estimated that setting up such a green fund will entail an expenditure of Rs 5,000 crore.
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Responding to supplementaries during the Question Hour, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said removal of unmanned crossing is a priority area as maximum accidents take place at such sites.
The scheme aims to take out polluting vehicles off the street and incentivise car-owners to replace vehicles older than 11 years by providing excise duty exemptions on new vehicles among other benefits.
The construction target has also been increased 2.5 times to 16,000 km for the fiscal, translating into building over 40 km of highways a day.
The Shipping Ministry is collecting all orders from Government of India which includes order for nine LNG ships worth Rs 18,000 crore and private sector will be roped in for the some of these.
In its audit report for the year 2014-15, the CAG has pointed out that loans outstanding against state-level organisations and institutions constitute the major portion of total outstanding loans of Delhi government.
The government is looking to harness the country's 50,000 km of sea and river fronts as waterways and mulling innovative ways of financing to raise around Rs 70,000 crore to develop these stretches in the first phase, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.
Terming it as unacceptable, he said "instead of the government borrowing, and showing it as part of the fiscal deficit, and giving it to Ministry of Railways and Road Transport as budgetary grant, you (Centre) are asking them to borrow."
shipyards facing severe problems to unlock capital worth over Rs 1 lakh crore, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said today. The government is committed to reviving them on lines of stuck road projects where it has rolled out majority of the Rs 3.8 lakh crore stuck projects, Gadkari said.
Even farmers who had parted with their land for the projects earlier are to get enhanced compensation under the new land acquisition law in case they are yet to be compensated under the old legislation.
