MoRTH lays foundation stones for 11 NH projects at Rs 5,722 cr

25 Feb 2022 CW Team

The Minister for Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Nitin Gadkari, laid foundation stones for 11 National Highways (NHs) projects of 534 km worth Rs 5,722 crore in Madhya Pradesh.

Other Ministers, including the Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of India, General V K Singh, Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan, and Former Lok Sabha Speaker and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Sumitra Mahajan, were also present.

Gadkari said that these NHs projects would ease transportation facilities to the pilgrims and tourists places. Moreover, it will provide better connectivity from agricultural markets near Ujjain.

He said that the Ujjain-Dewas Industrial Corridor would provide new employment opportunities. Besides, the entire Malwa-Nimar region would be developed, along with the border areas as storage centres, fuel and time will be saved, and travelling would be safer.

Gadkari added that the government is implementing various steps to build next-generation infrastructure with a commitment to ensure smooth connectivity, faster development, better security and prosperity for everyone.

Image Source

Also read: NHAI to build 5,795 km National Highways in Aspirational Districts

Infrastructure Transport

12 Mar 2026

Kavach 4.0 Commissioned on Delhi–Mumbai and Delhi–Howrah

"Kavach version four has been commissioned on 1,452 route km, covering the high density Delhi–Mumbai and Delhi–Howrah corridors. The rollout included laying 8,570 km of optical fibre, installation of 1,100 telecom towers, deployment of trackside equipment over 6,776 RKm and establishment of 767 station data centres. Trackside implementation has been taken up on 24,427 RKm covering Golden Quadrilateral, Golden Diagonal and High Density Network sections. The programme aims to strengthen signalling and train protection on key routes.Kavach is an indigenously developed automatic train protecti..

Railways Advance Kalyan–Murbad Line And Mumbai Capacity Expansion

"Indian Railways is advancing multiple rail infrastructure projects in Maharashtra, including the sanctioned Kalyan–Murbad new line and sizable investments under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project and the Mumbai–Ahmedabad High Speed Rail project. The Kalyan–Murbad 28 km new line has been sanctioned at Rs 8.36 billion (bn) on a 50:50 cost-sharing basis with the Government of Maharashtra and has been declared a Special Railway Project for land acquisition; proposals covering 214 hectares are at various stages of acquisition. Budgetary outlay for projects falling fully or partly in Maharash..

Parliamentary Panel Flags Funding Gaps in Heavy Industries

"The Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry (Rajya Sabha) presented its 332nd report on the Demands for Grants 2026-27 of the Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI). Figures converted from crore and lakh are expressed in million (mn). The Budget Estimates 2026-27 for the Ministry stand at Rs 79,399 mn against a projected requirement of Rs 94,843.2 mn, a shortfall of about 16 per cent, with revenue at Rs 79,370.8 mn and capital compressed to Rs 28.2 mn from Rs 5,020 mn.The committee flagged recurring BE-to-RE compression and declining revised estimate utilisation, and calle..