National Highways
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NHAI tightens RFP norms to ensure quality and transparency in highway projects
India | Sep 18, 2025, 01:14 PM ISTThe revised guidelines also address unauthorised practices in project execution, especially the use of unapproved contractors and subcontractors. Reports have surfaced of concessionaires hiring contractors without prior authorisation or surpassing the permissible subcontracting limits in EPC.
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Road trips to cost more from today as NHAI hikes toll charges across country | Check details
India | Apr 01, 2025, 04:08 PM ISTThe National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has increased toll charges by an average of 4-5% across the country, with the revised rates coming into effect from April 1. The hike, part of an annual revision linked to wholesale price index-based inflation, affects 855 toll plazas nationwide.
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J-K: Heavy snowfall, rains lash several parts of valley, check list of roads, highways closed
Jammu and Kashmir | Feb 28, 2025, 12:22 PM ISTJ-K weather: Officials said that between Ramsu and Qazigund heavy snow accumulation forced the administration to close the roads, while shooting stones, and mudslides between Nashri and the NAVYUG Tunnel, also contributed to the shutdown.
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Uniform Toll Policy: Govt plans to provide relief to commuters on National Highways | Details here
India | Feb 03, 2025, 05:46 PM ISTIndia has the second largest road network and its National Highways span a total length of 1,46,195 km, forming the primary arterial network of the country. Around 7,000 km highways been constructed so far in the current financial year.
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Monthly passes soon for passenger vehicles on national highways, Gadkari makes big announcement
Business | Jan 16, 2025, 03:21 PM ISTNitin Gadkari said the toll collection booths will be set up outside villages so that it does not disturb the movement of villagers and added that only 74 per cent of toll revenue comes from commercial vehicles.
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India's highway revolution: Expressways like Delhi-Mumbai, Bengaluru-Chennai to be completed by 2025
India | Jan 03, 2025, 07:13 PM ISTIndia's Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is set to complete several key expressways by 2025, including the Delhi-Mumbai and Bengaluru-Chennai expressways. These projects are part of a broader initiative to enhance the quality and connectivity of the country’s road infrastructure.
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Toll tax: Banks will collect toll tax on highways, check which expressway it will start from
Business | Nov 04, 2024, 09:44 PM ISTTol tax collection: Unlike the conventional toll plazas, this new MLFF system won’t have physical toll booths, rather, sensors and equipment installed on overhead gantries will read vehicle information as they pass by and will send it to an electronic toll system for automatic fee deduction.
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Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Sai to meet Gadkari tomorrow to review National Highways progress in state
chhattisgarh | Sep 29, 2024, 05:50 PM ISTCM Sai will participate in the review meeting chaired by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to review the progress of national highway projects in Chhattisgarh. The highway connecting Ayodhya to Chhattisgarh will also be discussed in the meeting.
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'Toll fee collection on national highways reached over Rs 54,800 crore in FY24', says Nitin Gadkari
India | Aug 07, 2024, 04:13 PM ISTAs per the Green Highways Policy 2015, the National Highways Authority of India has successfully planted 402.28 lakh plants to date along the national highways.
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Centre approves 8 high-speed road corridors worth over Rs 50,000 cr, PM hails infrastructure boost
India | Aug 02, 2024, 11:26 PM ISTThe Narendra Modi government has sanctioned eight major National High-Speed Road Corridor Projects, covering 936 km and costing Rs. 50,655 crore, to enhance logistics efficiency, reduce congestion, and improve connectivity nationwide.
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NHAI hikes toll tax across highways by 5 per cent from June 3
Business | Jun 02, 2024, 10:20 PM ISTThere are around 855 user fee plazas on the national highway network on which user fee is levied as per the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008.
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All new national highways to have helipads: Aviation Minister Scindia
India | Oct 19, 2022, 10:39 AM ISTHelipads on the national highways will help in immediate evacuations during emergencies, Jyotiraditya Scindia noted during the Civil Aviation Ministers' Conference in Delhi.
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'Construction pace of 50 km/day': Gadkari's target for national highways
India | Mar 12, 2022, 08:22 PM ISTGadkari said the government is giving highest priority to developing the road network near the border areas of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.
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Budget 2022: National Highways to be expanded by 25,000 km in 2022-23, says FM Sitharaman
Business | Feb 01, 2022, 12:09 PM ISTSitharaman announced this while presenting the 2022-23 Budget in Parliament. She also said multimodal logistic parks will also be set up in 2022-23.
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All physical toll booths will be removed in a year: Nitin Gadkari
News | Mar 19, 2021, 12:00 AM ISTRoad Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on March 18 said that all physical toll booths in the country will be removed within one year, and the road tax will be collected based on GPS imaging.
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NHAI to develop 57 stretches as model national highways
Business | May 31, 2020, 02:14 PM ISTPlans are afoot to develop 57 highway stretches near each state capital to serve as model national highways, an NHAI official said.
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NHAI resumes toll collection on National Highways
Business | Apr 20, 2020, 10:42 AM ISTThe central government on March 25, had announced temporary suspension of toll collection following directives by the Ministry of Home Affairs in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), as well as highway developers, resumed collection at toll plazas.
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5,759 km of national highways built till Nov this fiscal, informs govt to Parliament
India | Dec 20, 2018, 04:02 PM ISTThe Ministry has set a target of construction of 10,000 km of National Highways in the current fiscal 2018-19.
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Can't promise on toll tax waiver, says Nitin Gadkari
Business | Jan 02, 2018, 11:56 AM ISTRuling out any exemption from toll collection at national highways, Union road minister Nitin Gadkari said that if people want good services they will have to pay for that.
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Over 100 roads in UP to become National Highways, announces Yogi govt
National | Jul 09, 2017, 10:19 PM ISTMore than 100 state and district roads will soon be converted into national highways, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said today.