Source:-https://indianexpress.com The Centre is “fully competent” to notify “any land (not necessarily an existing road/highway) for acquisition, to construct a highway to be a national highway”, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday while upholding notifications issued under the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Act, 1956, for acquisition of land for construction of the eight-lane
Source: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has cleared the decks for the Chardham highway project, which will connect four holy places in the hills of Uttarakhand through 900-km all-weather roads, by modifying an NGT order to constitute a fresh committee to look into environmental concerns. It ordered the Ministry of Environment and Forest to form
Source: greaterkashmir.com Amid the reports and complaints of haphazard and illegal constructions in several areas particularly along Srinagar-Leh highway in sub-division Kangan of Ganderbal district, the administration here have issued an order asking the rural development department to activate their ground staff to check the constructions in their respective jurisdictions. “As you are aware that
Source – indianexpress.com Raising questions of propriety and conflict of interest, the Union Environment Ministry’s premier research centre Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd (NBCC) to “help and facilitate…in obtaining necessary approvals” under wildlife and forest laws for a 50-km highway cutting through the
