On his last official working day in Delhi Metro, E Sreedharan was busy helping Chennai Metro learn key lessons.Counted as one the best technocrat managers, the country has had, the 79-year old Sreedharan will hand over the reins of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), to his successor and colleague Mangu Singh, on Saturday evening. Singh oversaw the implementation of high-speed Airport Express line.
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Japan promises aid for infra development
India and Japan have decided to enhance the earlier bilateral currency swap arranĆĀgement to $15 billion from the current $3 billion. A joint staĆĀtement, issued after official level talks between the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda expressed the hope that this enhancement will further strengthen financial cooperation.
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Look beyond codes and standards
Bangalore's much-awaited metro rail was flagged off on 20 October. Like its counterpart in Delhi, its swanky stations include modern facilities of safety at par with international standards.
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Delhi Metro gets UN certification
Delhi Metro has been certified by the United Nations (UN) as the first metro rail-based system in the world to get carbon credits for conĆĀtributing to the fight against climate change by help reduĆĀcing pollution levels in the city by 6.3 lakh tonne every year.
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Analysis: Leveraging real estate for metro systems
City planners in India seem to be looking at metro rail as the panacea to poor and myopic planning and haphazard growth. Sudheendra Bajpai and Aparajita Dutt say integration of systems should include planning the city"s real estate around metro rail.
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Infra-Landmarks: Few and far between
The past 12 months have not belonged to infrastructure flag-offs. As the economy turned south in 2008-09, not as many infra projects as targeted were awarded, especially those in road, rail, port and energy; in most cases, the targets themselves took a heavy beating.
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Pratibha CRFG bags Delhi Metro order
Pratibha CRFG has bagged a Rs 467 crore order from Delhi Metro for two segments of the underground metro being built by DMRC.
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Private Equity: Telecom's infra-sharing model can be replicated in other sectors
IDFC was established in 1997 to channel the private capital into the infrastructure sector, and IDFC Private Equity was established in 2002-3 to provide equity support to infrastructure sector.
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Bumper to bummer
What our cities must get right before jumping to future transport options. Ć¢ā¬ÅWhy focus on urban transport?Ć¢ā¬Ā asked a 2005 government presentation document, somewhat rhetorically.
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Let's get scalability right
As crowded as our cities are, expensive urban transit systems have so far been more sizzle than steak.