New Delhi: In a move to develop a fully digital National Highway tolling ecosystem, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is contemplating the complete discontinuation of cash transactions at National Highway fee plazas across the country from April 1, 2026, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) said in an official statement on Friday. Following implementation, all toll payments at National Highway fee plazas will be processed exclusively through digital modes, including...Read More

Gandhinagar: To enable citizens to celebrate the festivals of Holi and Dhuleti with their families in their hometowns, the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) will operate additional buses. Compared to last year, the number of extra services has been increased, with a total of 1,300 additional buses scheduled to operate more than 7,500 trips. Special travel arrangements have been made for passengers travelling from Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Amreli, Junagadh, Bhavnagar, and Bhuj towards Go...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Budget for 2026–27 has announced a series of major initiatives aimed at developing and strengthening road and expressway infrastructure across the state, with a total allocation of ₹29,709 crore made to the Road and Building Department. Expressways and High-Speed Corridors The state is set to accelerate major projects with an additional provision of ₹3,000 crore for the Namo Shakti Expressway and Somnath–Dwarka Expressway. These projects are designed to conne...Read More

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, yesterday approved a project for the construction of four-lane sections of Dhamasiya–Bitada/Movi (47.46 km) and Nasarpore–Malotha (60.21 km) in Gujarat under the HAM mode, with a total project length of 107.67 km and a total capital cost of ₹4,583.64 crore. The project is part of NH-56, which starts at Nimbahera in the state of Rajasthan and traverses through Dahod district in Gujarat and Aliraj...Read More

New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued a tender for appointing a consultancy firm to prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the proposed six-laning of the Ahmedabad–Vadodara Expressway (NE-1) in Gujarat. This Expressway currently features two lanes on each side, along with a service lane. According to the Notice Inviting Tender issued by the NHAI headquarters in New Delhi on February 12, 2026, the DPR will cover the entire 93.302-km stretch of the express...Read More

New Delhi: Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari in a reply in the Lok Sabha stated that Delhi to Vadodara stretch of Delhi - Mumbai Expressway will open to traffic by May 2026. This means that the journey from Delhi to Vadodara will be possible by mid of current calendar year. It's worth noting that the stretch between Gujarat - Madhya Pradesh border to Vadodara is not opened for traffic yet due to less than half a dozen obstructions, including that of presence of a po...Read More

Bharuch: The district administration has initiated the process to convert the city’s key link road into Bharuch’s first six-lane road. As part of the project, an encroachment removal drive was carried out on Thursday along the stretch between Shaktinath Circle and Shravan Chowkdi. Officials from the Roads and Buildings (R&B) Department cleared structures built on government land on both sides of the road. During the drive, compound walls constructed on public land near the Swaminarayan ...Read More

Jambusar: An  incident has raised questions over the toll collection system  after toll tax was deducted in Bhavnagar from a car that was allegedly parked at its owner’s home in Amod. Babubhai Barjwala, a resident of Gujarat Society in Amod Nagar, had travelled to Mumbai on Friday for work, leaving his Renault Magnite (GJ16 DS 3540) parked in the courtyard of his house. However, he was shocked to receive a message stating that Rs 115 had been deducted as toll tax at the Rohisa Toll Plaza ne...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government had proposed the development of 12 Garvi Gujarat High-Speed Corridors in the 2025–26 state budget to strengthen and modernise Gujarat’s road network. The project is steadily moving forward, with multiple corridors now at different stages of planning and execution. Following the announcement of these new high-speed corridors, approval was granted for nine corridors covering a total length of 809 kilometres at an estimated cost of ₹5,576 crore. Now, as pa...Read More

New Delhi: "The Delhi–Mumbai Expressway will be completed by 2027. This route will reduce the travel time between Delhi and Mumbai to just 12 hours, compared to the current 33 hours," said Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Harsh Malhotra at a press conference on Friday. He stated that the route will significantly improve economic integration. In addition, the Central Government is working on several plans to ease traffic congestion in Delhi. He also mentioned that in th...Read More