PPP projects have contributed only 33 per cent to total capacity of major ports up to March 2014, thereby defeating the purpose of the PPP model, CAG has said.
Category: Roads & Highways
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Re-construction of Major District Road in Nashik
The Major District Road, MDR 31 passes through Shaha and Kolpewadi villages in Sinnar Taluka, District Nashik. It comes under the purview of the Nashik PWD and is an important link connecting the sugarcane producing farms of Sinnar Taluka with sugar mills with heavy traffic during peak seasons.
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Construction of internal township roads
Concrete road construction using StrataWebĂ⢠geocells SW330-100mm.
Abig residential township project near Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh is being constructed. The site is approximately 16 km from Jhansi Railway Station on the Shivpuri - Lalitpur Bypass Road.
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Hit by the HAMmer
The Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) unveiled with great fanfare earlier this year was expected to set off the next wave of award of PPP highway projects. The intent and purpose of introducing HAM, as a hybrid of EPC and BOT (annuity) formats, was noble and deserves to be lauded: to moderate risks faced by highway developers and to provide financial support during construction.
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Finding the Right Road
The moot question is whether good intent has been accompanied by careful planning.
It was always going to be a difficult job. Roads development, battered and bruised by a heavy load of projects awarded in the recent past, remained stalled for various reasons ranging from land acquisition and bureaucratic red tape to a lack of accountability and transparency in the bidding process.
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OSi uses bentley map to create an authoritative SDI
Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi), IrelandĂ´s national mapping agency, has developed a standardised, authoritative digital referencing framework that enables consistent referencing and integration of national data related to location.
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In this regime, roads have taken a quantum leap
The government is taking only the EPC cost as the DPR cost. They are not adding other things like interest on annuity or the interest difference when we do the financing of the project.
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7th Annual India Roads Conference 2015
The transformation of IndiaĂ´s roads seems to be a reality now. In February this year, the government pledged to invest Rs 80,000 crore in the sector in the Budget. And now the target is to award 10,000 km by March 2016.
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The New Road
WeĂ´ve chosen to focus on roads and highways development again this month, making it the cover story for two straight issues in a row. Now, that is surely an unusual situation!
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APM Terminals Pipavav is the first public private partnership in the sector
APM Terminals Pipavav currently has a capacity to handle up to 850,000 TEUs of containers, 4-5 million MT of dry bulk cargo, 2 million MT of liquid cargo and about 250,000 cars per year. We are currently in the midst of an expansion primarily to increase the container handling capacity from 850,000 TEUs to 1.35 mn TEUs a year.