YR Nagaraja delineates how ULBs should be empowered so that the new focus on building efficiency can be properly addressed.
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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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TAMPering with expectations
Three major container terminal operators in India have been hit by tariff reductions thereby reducing their revenue earning capability and positioning them to be loss-making units,
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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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Real-time traffic management system
When it’s information technology (IT), Bangalore shows the way. Infusion of IT into India’s urban transport infrastructure has mostly been piecemeal, sometimes defeating the purpose. As Praveen Sood says,
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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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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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Consider development in addition to projects
Institutional investment in the recently introduced IDFs will require sovereign guarantees. Projected not merely as a factor of a single project but for several projects in a developmental cluster, such government guarantees can reduce the chances of the risk.
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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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Surat saviour goes to Delhi
The government recently appointed SR Rao as the Commerce Secretary in place of Rahul Khullar who was shifted as the telecom regulator after retirement earlier this month.