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The Karnataka High Court has held that prior environmental clearance is not needed for the widening work of the 82 kilometer stretch of National Highway 4-A in the State of Karnataka in terms of the EIA Notification dated August 22, 2013.
As per the said notification, prior EC is required for projects having a stretch of more than 100 kilometers. The Court made this declaration based on the materials on record which showed that no work was going on in the NH-4A stretch in Goa.
NH 4A passes from the State of Karnataka to the State of Goa. As per the affidavit filed by NHAI, widening work has not been undertaken in the stretch of NH 4A in the State of Goa from 84.121 km to 153.075 km. The project is only at DPR stage and no financial allocation has been made for the said work. It was specifically stated that no widening projects are in progress currently in the state of Goa.
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DNA Explainer: Travel between Delhi and Meerut in just 45 minutes - all you need to know
Presently, commuters take the NH-58 to enter Delhi which takes over three hours to cover a distance of 70 km.
DNA Web Team
Apr 1, 2021, 07:07 PM IST
The 96-km long 14-lane Delhi-Meerut Expressway by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is now open to the public. It will reduce the travel time between Meerut and Delhi to 45 minutes instead of over two and half hours which is the present travel duration between both the cities.
Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari took to Twitter to announce the commencement of the highly-anticipated road project. Delhi Meerut Expressway has now been completed & opened to traffic. We have full filled our promise of reducing travel time between Delhi-Meerut from 2.5 hours to 45 minutes, tweeted Gadkari.
Non-FASTag Vehicles To Pay Twice the Toll Fees At National Highways From 15th February
FASTag lane at a toll plaza (Twitter)
Vehicles passing through NH toll plazas and not having FASTag onboard will have to cough up twice the toll fee from the midnight of February 15-16,
Times of Indiareports.
The Union Road and Transport ministry declared in an order, âIt has been decided that all the lanes in the fee plazas on National Highways shall be declared as FASTag lane of the fee plaza w.e.f. midnight of 15th /16th February 2021.â
FASTags have been made mandatory for all motor vehicles from 1 January 2021 onward. The ministry added, âTherefore, as per NH Fee Rules 2008, any vehicle not fitted with FASTag or vehicle without valid, functional âFASTag entering into the FASTag lane of the fee plaza shall pay a fee equivalent to two times of the fee applicable to that category.â