YR Nagaraja delineates how ULBs should be empowered so that the new focus on building efficiency can be properly addressed.
Category: Roads & Highways
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Roads & Bridges | Status report: The elusion of enhanced standards
While the extent of the highway network keeps increasing, its efficiency still remains questionable, While National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and developers are out to change the face of Indian roads, the ground level factors are not changing.
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Prepare grounds for offer
One of the final chunks of the government’s accountability in the growth of infrastructure could be in jeopardy if a parliamentary panel headed by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Sumitra Mahajan gets its way.
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Parallel tracks
Piecemeal approach to transport, devoid of integration into a city’s ecosystem, continues to deter holistic urban growth. With urban India set to house 600 million people by 2031,
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Better integration and risk diversification needed
Indian cities planning newer forms of urban transport would need to closely examine the imperatives of an integrated system, which is lacking in spite of the fact that the projects are new—say developers and vendors.
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An unclear path
AS Malik describes the do’s and don’ts of scaling the acquisition and clearances challenges in pipeline projects. Pipelines are cost effective, energy efficient, safe and environment friendly with minimal impact on land use pattern and negligible loss
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Expanding Public Purpose definition is critical
Even before a parliamentary panel form sought critical changes that could thwart the industry, the Land Acquisition Bill, now planned for the monsoon session of the Parliament, needs to change several thorny clauses including a definition of public purpose
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Indias infra sectors seek Canadian participation
A report on the conference in Toronto that focused on why India is lucrative as an investment destination. It is a nation under construction. As India’s Secretary of Road Transport and Highways AK Upadhyay said, the country’s
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Water experts question uniform thrust on PPP
The conference was a milestone in that experts discussed why the government-promoted PPP model has often failed when it comes to the water sector.
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A Driving Force
In 1999, when the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation awarded the construction of solid approach road from Mumbai’s Mahim Junction to Bandra Worli Sealink to Supreme Infrastructure