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Reliance Infrastructure bags Rs 2,676-cr road project
Reliance Infrastructure has bagged a Rs 2,676 crore-expressway project connecting Faridabad, Noida, Ghaziabad and Sonepat. The company, a sole bidder for project, will recover its investment in 20 years by collecting toll from expressway users.
- Date:
- 25/12/2008
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Mohali airport: A year later, work on ground still to take off
Mohali: No joint venture company formed yet for construction activity, says AAI official
Almost a year has passed since an international airport was formally approved for Mohali. No work has, however, begun at the ground level as yet.
- Date:
- 25/12/2008
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- Indian Express (Chandigarh)
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Heavyweights join rush for 60 NHDP projects
GMR, Tata Realty, L&T Among Bidders; Total Cost Of Projects Under Phase-III and V To Be Over Rs 70,000 Crore
LOWER interest rates and cheaper raw materials are breathing fresh life into about 60 highway projects worth Rs 70,000 crore that were lying in limbo for several months because of high cost of financing and litigation.
- Date:
- 24/12/2008
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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12 infrastructure projects in Gujarat, MP, Haryana on Delhi-Mumbai corridor
In a move to quicken the pace of infrastructure development on the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), the Government has identified twelve early-bird projects in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, which will kick off before the master plan is put in place.
- Date:
- 19/12/2008
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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CAG pulls up NHAI for delays in highway projects
A majority of the 17 road works awarded under the public-private partnership (PPP) scheme in the first phase of National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) were delayed, according to a recent report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Of these projects, only five were completed in time, while there were delays of 2-42 months in others.
- Date:
- 15/12/2008
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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GMC receives JNNURM reforms implementation award
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) Excellence runner-up award in the ‘implementation of reforms’ category.
- Date:
- 11/12/2008
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- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Survey on railway overbridge
Siliguri: A study will be conducted to see if it is feasible to construct a railway overbridge at Ghumtee 4, one of the main entry points to Jalpaiguri town, to ease traffic congestion.
- Date:
- 02/12/2008
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- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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After losing Rs 201 crore bid, Mohali bus terminal project now put on Rs 52 crore offer
The state Government is finding it hard to get bidders to start development projects in Mohali.
A state-of-the-art air-conditioned multistoried bus terminal-cum - commercial complex is one of the total 13 development projects awaiting a bidder, three months after its previous bidder backed out.
- Date:
- 02/12/2008
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- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Inference network in environmental mapping
Environmental quality assessment is essential for urban development. Rapid urbanisation has made it all the more essential now than before. But there is dearth of appropriate techniques to assess urban environment quality (UEQA). Here is a technique that is feasible, flexible and valid.
- Date:
- Nov 2008
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- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 12 Issue: 11 pp: 60-64
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Sectarian violence mars ethnic tourism in Orissa
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
Ethnic tourism is a booming sector and some 30,000 to 40,000 foreign tourists travel to tribal areas in the country every year. In Orissa, their annual foot- fall is limited to 2,500-3,000 as per Travel Agents Association of Orissa.
- Date:
- 21/10/2008
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
