Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister has given sanction for allotment of the sum of Rs. 145 crore for construction of a major bridge on river Saraswati in Sidhpur taluka of North Gujarat. The proposed bridge will be a four-lane major bridge and it will be located on the Mahesana - Unjha - Sidhpur - Palanpur State highway. The existing two-lane bridge over river Saraswati here was constructed as early as in the year 1959. In order to address the needs of increasing traffic, the new four lane...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has given directions to the road building department to widen the roads to make the roads with heavy traffic in the state easier, safer and faster to facilitate high level of service. For this purpose, he has sanctioned ₹ 1646.44 crore for making 203.41 km length of 21 roads four lane. To make 221.45 km long 15 roads  10 meters wide at a cost of Rs. 580.16 crore and 25 roads of 388.89 km length 7 meters wide, the Chief Minister has app...Read More

Gandhinagar: A speeding Mercedes car hit a pickup vehicle and later bumped into two women who were standing near a road-side tea shop on Pethapur - Mahudi highway. The car also hit one bike and a Maruti car. Two women hit by this luxury black car were killed. The car belongs to Vijapur based builder Dilip Prabhudas Patel. His driver Anand Rabari was driving it. Three persons were injured and two women Kanchanben Rathod and Manharba Rathod were dead in this incident. The builder was going to V...Read More

Godhra: A crucial highway connecting Ahmedabad to Indore via two district headquarters Godhra and Dahod has been shut today due to heavy rainfall and overtoping of flood water. The district collector of Panchmahal making this announcement requested commuters from Bhamaiya and Godhra city to use Godhra bypass road as an alternative. DeshGujaratRead More

Saputara: Saputara - Nashik highway is shut for last over four day over a blockade agitation in Maharashtra demanding posting of only tribal government officers/ staffers in the areas populated by tribals and implementation of PESA act in that reference. Those agitating announce they would continue the blockade of highway in Surgana taluka of Maharashtra till their demands are accepted. All roads connecting Saputara to Nashik, including the national highway and the internal roads are blocked...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government has approved Rs. 32 crore sum for two-lane conversion of 20.10 km roads connecting Rah - Changda - Luvana - Morthal and Luvana - Bavera in Banaskantha district of North Gujarat. These roads are presently 3.75 meters wide. They are to be widened to 7 meters in two-lane form, for which the sum is allocated by the Chief Minister. These roads are important as they connect Tharad, Dhanera and Radhanpur - Tharad - Sanchor national highway. The Chief Minister has...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government today informed that it has approved allocation of Rs. 382.16 crore for development of Vadodara - Statue of Unity highway as a high-speed corridor. Thanks to this decision, the first phase works of development of high-speed corridor will take place on the stretch of highway number 48's Vadodara junction to VUDA limit for a six-lane road with service roads on both sides. A standard four-lane highway work will also be taken up in rest of 2.5 km length between V...Read More

Vadodara: Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel today allocated Rs. 316.78 crore for the construction of the Ring Road in Vadodara under the Swarnim Jayanti Chief Minister Urban Development Scheme. The Vadodara Urban Development Authority (VUDA) had proposed the need for a ring road to facilitate well-planned development and ease traffic congestion in the Vadodara metropolis and its surrounding industrial areas. Following this proposal, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has approved Rs. 316.78 crore fo...Read More