Data from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) showed that only 4,766 km of the targeted 12,000 km of highways for FY23 had been built from April to November. Pratap Padode, Editor-in-Chief, Construction World worries as we step into 2023… Highway construction this year is even slower than 2020 – the first year of the...
Tag: Pratap Padode
Post
Post
Delhi to host 6th MAKE IN STEEL Conference & Awards on 10th February 2023
With the timely theme ‘Decarbonisation v/s Growth’ this mega event is all set to become the potential game changer. The 6th edition of ‘Make In Steel’ to bring together structural steel technocrats from all over India and abroad on 10th February 2023 in New Delhi.Experts to deliberate on state-of-the-art steel offerings and address the deep-rooted...
Post
Indian Army’s Lt Gen Harpal Singh & Awanish Awasthi, Advisor, Chief Minister UP, bag top honours at 20th Construction World Global Awards
Indian Army’s Lt Gen Harpal Singh & Awanish Awasthi, Advisor, Chief Minister UP, bag top honours at 20th Construction World Global Awards Awanish Awasthi, Advisor to Chief Minister Uttar Pradesh, and SV Desai, Director & Sr VP (Civil Infrastructure), L&T, received ‘Construction World Person of the Year 2022’ awards for their contribution in Public and...
Post
Gati Shakti will catalyse economy, affirm infrastructure experts
Timelines for DPRs and land acquisition of projects will also be shortened Mega projects like Navi Mumbai International Airport, Sagarmala, Coastal Road, Mumbai Trans-harbour Link, Noida International Airport among others are likely to witness economic benefits with the implementation of Gati Shakti as timelines for DPRs and land acquisition have been shortened stated experts at...
Post
India’s Top Architects & Builders for 2022 are here!
37 Architects & Builders, chosen from among 715 nominations In its 17th edition – and with the past two years of a virtual affair – the CONSTRUCTION WORLD Architect & Builder Awards, popularly known as CWAB Awards, was back this year with its offline edition, hosted at Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai, on August 26. With...
Post
3i EXPO & Conference gets a rousing response from the manufacturing industry; IPF presents awards to 19 SMEs from across India
3i EXPO & Conference – hosted by Industrial Products Finder (IPF) from May 20-21, 2022 in Mumbai – received an arousing response from the Indian manufacturing sectors with senior representatives from some of the leading companies like Emerson, Godrej & Boyce, Aditya Birla Group, Reliance Industries, Mitsubishi Electric, etc visiting the event. Mr Sanjay Bhatia,...
Post
Need to develop 700 km of metro rail lines annually to meet future growth
With Indian cities emerging as the key drivers of economic growth, attention also needs to be paid to developing a robust public transportation system in them, observes Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs. Puri made these observations at a panel discussion moderated by Pratap Padode, Editor-in-Chief, CONSTRUCTION WORLD, and Aashish Chandorkar, Columnist,...
Post
DFI to create financing ecosystem for infra projects
The new Development Finance Institution (DFI) will be a fairly large entity that will play a key role in the Central Government’s strategy to facilitate the creation of a robust financing ecosystem for infrastructure projects in the country. Simultaneously, the government also remains committed to rolling out systemic interventions to ensure the necessary action on...
Post
EESL has perhaps prompted the biggest ‘Make in India’ story by far
In an exclusive interaction with INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY's Pratap Padode and Manish Pant, Kumar outlines the broad strategy that they, as providers of diversified energy-efficiency services, are implementing to radically alter the way energy is consumed in India and globally.
Post
One Platform For All Smart Cities Solutions
With all the glitter and shine, India's newly-found tech hub, Telangana, hosted the country's smartest conclave ever - SMART URBANATION from March 22to 23, 2018.