A round 2.5 million passengers use the Delhi Metro everyday that has an operational distance of 190 km with an aim to touch 400 km by 2021. "Despite the metro expanding across cities, the pace of metro expansion is inadequate

Delhi Metro which is being referred as one of the shining examples of Indo-Japan collaborations, was the first endeavour in mass rapid transit system in India,

If there is money and technology, then opting for a metro project works. But if it's only for a status symbol, then it's not a well-deserved investment. Other investments should be explored before jumping on the metro bandwagon.

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.

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.

Jindal Aluminium Limited (JAL), India's leading manufacturer of aluminium extruded profiles, commissioned the company's first photovoltaic grid connected solar power generation plant at Chitradurga, Karnataka,

The reuse and recycle of wastewater is becoming important policy agenda in India with growing water scarcity in the urban areas. However, lack of proper infrastructure for transporting wastewater to the treatment plant and treated water is a major issue.

Until recently the fastest growing city in the continent, Bangalore now has an airport that is expanding at the fastest rate in the country. With a spanking new Terminal 1A, it now hopes to be the hub of choice for the south.

India seems to be prepared to take the step into energy efficient technology for waste water treatment, observes Jan Olsen, Director, Aeration Competence Centre (ACC), Siemens (Denmark), talking to Sumantra Das.