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Greenfield connectivity New Highway Stretches
to Amritsar HAI is planning National Highways. With and entry/ exit, the
nion Minister for Road Transport N to develop all the required safety stretches will also serve as
& Highways and MSMEs Nitin 57 highway and aesthetic features like a platform to instruct the
UGadkari has announced the stretches, totalling to road signs, road markings, highway engineers of the
development of a new Greenfield 1,735 km, near each state road furniture & safety country, including state
connectivity to Amritsar City from capital to serve as model items, proper junctions PWD engineers.
Nakodar as part of Delhi-Amritsar The highways will
Expressway. The road from Amritsar to
Gurdaspur would also be fully developed have functional drains,
and made completely signal-free. pedestrian facilities, street
With this expressway, travel time from lighting, plantation, toll
Amritsar to Delhi International airport plazas, user facilities &
would be reduced to about four hours wayside amenities, CCTV
from the present about eight hours. cameras at all vulnerable
The Government has taken up the locations and no black
development of Delhi Amritsar Katra spots.
Expressway under Bharatmala Pariyojana.

Scooter sharing ADB loan for road projects
programme he Asian are expected to improve training the Maharashtra

Development connectivity to national Public Works Department
iger Global and Hero Motocorp-
backed electric scooter company TBank has signed a highways, interstate project staff to build their
TAther Energy has joined hands with USD 177 million loan to roads, seaports, airports, capacity in climate change
dockless shared mobility firm Bounce Maharashtra to upgrade rail hubs, district adaptation and disaster
for ‘peer to peer’ (P2P) scooter sharing two major district roads headquarters, industrial resilient features in road
programme. The partnership enables and 11 state highways areas, enterprise clusters design, road maintenance
new Ather 450 owners to monetize the with combined length and agricultural areas. The
idle time of the vehicle by listing their of 450 km. The projects project will also focus on planning and road safety.
vehicle on the Bounce App for all their
customers. The P2P scooters are picked
up and returned to the owner by Bounce Chamba Tunnel Project
customers. The customers will now be
able to rent the vehicle for hours or days, he Border Roads Chardham -- Gangotri, by October 2020 almost
as listed by the owner. Organisation (BRO) Kedarnath, Yamunotri and three months before
Thas recently achieved Badrinath -- a Rs 12,000Cr its scheduled date of
a breakthrough in the 440- ambitious project. Minister completion of January
Bengaluru airport metre long tunnel below Nitin Gadkari had stated 2021.
voted as best the busy Chamba town that the latest Austrian The Chamba tunnel is
and this is termed as an technology has been a horse-shoe type tunnel
engaluru’s Kempegowda ‘extraordinary feat’ in used in construction of with 10 metre carriage
International Airport has been voted nation-building during the the tunnel. The tunnel way width and 5.5 metre
B by customers as the best regional pandemic. will be through for traffic vertical clearance.
airport in India & Central Asia for the
third time in four years at the 2020 World The BRO achieved
Airport Awards The awards are regarded the major milestone by
as the quality benchmark for the world successfully digging up
airport industry, assessing customer service the 440-metre long tunnel
and facilities across over 550 airports. They below the busy Chamba
are based on the World Airport Survey town on Rishikesh-
questionnaires completed by over 100 Dharasu road, NH-94,
nationalities of airport customers during which will facilitate all-
the six-month survey period. weather connectivity to

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