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Moisture-resistant roads

Moisture-resistant roads

Bitumen consumption in India was 4.5 million tonne in 2011-12 costing Rs 18,000 crore (current value). Nearly 80 per cent valued at Rs 14,400 crore used for resurfacing, is the annual binder loss from the existing roads due to leaching and stripping of the bitumen binder.

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Caution! Danger ahead

Caution! Danger ahead

Despite efforts to ensure road safety, road deaths and accidents continue to climb creating a question mark on the efforts being put in ensuring safe road infrastructure. Infrastructure Today looks to understand the constraints in ensuring safe road infrastructure.

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Have better infrastructure, maintain it properly and monitor continuously: Experts

Have better infrastructure, maintain it properly and monitor continuously: Experts

The need for consistent and predictable behaviour while on the road is important otherwise each one using the road will not realise the other road users actions and reactions. So the first issue on behaviour, and which in Indian cities is quite unpredictable and undisciplined. The second factor is about the road design itself. This covers not just the road and traffic.

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What lies ahead?

What lies ahead?

The Indian infrastructure sector has been snowed under unfavourable macroeconomic variables and project level stress over the past couple of years. The slowing economy had an adverse impact on the transportation sector, particularly the projects in the early ramp-up stage.

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Still a distant dream?

Still a distant dream?

The establishment of the road regulator, as was announced in the 2013-14 Union Budget, might take place only after the elections. While many industry players want a regulator to be set up, what will the entity finally look like? Rahul Kamat takes a peek at the current trends.

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A tale of two Bills

A tale of two Bills

The Highways Bill could represent the first major step taken by the government towards the creation of an independent authority with the power to cut delays and streamline the project approvals processes, thereby addressing major problems faced by the Indian roads and highways industry today and potentially opening up huge private investment, writes Aakanksha Joshi.

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Supreme Infra bags orders

Supreme Infra bags orders

Supreme Infrastructure has secured three orders cumulatively worth Rs 617.7 crore for various construction works. These include a Rs 337-crore project for two-laning of Chhapra-Rewaghar-Muzaffarpur section of NH-102 in Bihar,

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Gammon Infra to exit road projects

Gammon Infra to exit road projects

Gammon Infrastructure and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have mutually agreed to terminate concession agreements of two NHAI road projects, as they remained non-starters due to lack of land clearances,