A petition seeking to declare as null and void, the entire land acquisition proceedings initiated for the proposed greenfield Chennai-Salem highway project, was filed in the Madras High Court. The plea, filed on June … READ FULL STORY
Land acquisition for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project is facing opposition from farmers in Gujarat, with villagers not allowing the joint measurement survey to take place in many places. Farmer leaders are demanding that … READ FULL STORY
Ponds, ambulances, solar street lights and doctors, are some of the demands that villagers in Maharashtra’s Palghar district want met, before they give their nod to the government’s ambitious bullet train project, say officials. … READ FULL STORY
The Maharashtra government has come out with guidelines to avoid a delay in the construction of bridges, due to a lengthy land acquisition process. According to a recently-issued government resolution (GR), the Public Works … READ FULL STORY
The compensation provide to farmers, whose land will be acquired for the Ahmedabad–Mumbai Bullet Train project, will be ‘much more than what they are expecting’, implementing agency National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited’s (NHSRCL’s), … READ FULL STORY
A spokesperson for the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHRCL), which is implementing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, on May 3, 2018, assured that due care had been taken to cause the least inconvenience … READ FULL STORY
In a letter to prime minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Ahmed Patel, on May 2, 2018, said farmers’ representatives had complained that rules and procedures under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in … READ FULL STORY
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA), on April 11, 2018, presented its budget for FY 2018-19, along with revised estimates for 2017-18, before the Authority, the DDA’s highest decision-making body, during a meeting held at … READ FULL STORY
Almost 80 per cent work of designing of the bridges, viaducts and tunnels, on the country’s first bullet train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, has been completed by engineers based in Delhi, Mumbai and Japan, … READ FULL STORY
Farmers in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, on March 17, 2018, claimed that fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi, the prime accused in the alleged Rs 11,400-crore Punjab National Bank fraud, had acquired their lands at less … READ FULL STORY
The Maharashtra government, on March 15, 2018, presented a bill to provide a legal framework, for speedy implementation of infrastructure projects involving laying of underground pipelines and ducts. So far, the state has no … READ FULL STORY
The Supreme Court, on March 12, 2018, set aside two orders of the erstwhile Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in connection with land acquisitions in adjoining areas of Gurugram in Haryana, terming the decisions as … READ FULL STORY
A bill to amend the regulations governing compensation payable for acquisition of immovable property by the centre, for defence and security purposes, was passed by the Lok Sabha on December 20, 2107. The Immovable … READ FULL STORY
