Mumbai, August 30, 2024 – The second RAHSTA Forum 2024, held on August 30 at Hotel Sahara Star, has successfully set the stage for the highly anticipated RAHSTA Expo 2024. This prelude event brought together industry leaders, innovators, and key stakeholders to engage in insightful discussions, setting the tone for what promises to be a...
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Road Widening Under Progress
The last two decades witnessed highway infrastructure being developed on a massive scale in the country. Now the government has unveiled another huge new highway development programme (covering 83,000 km) under the Bharatmala Pariyojana, which will see a paradigm shift in highway development with focus on improving the efficiency of the national corridor and a long-term view on the highways network.
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The road sector has gathered steam with the government´s focus on the revival of the investment cycle. Over the next six months, the government plans to award road projects worth Rs 3.5 lakh crore.
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Making India
The small window of opportunity for the country requires every possible effort to make the most of the supporting environment to push the Make in India campaign and the Indian growth story.
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Tight liquidity scenario and toll non-compliance governed the road sector performancey
As against the target of 9,000 kms, during the first six months of 2012-13, NHAI managed to award only six projects. These six projects incÂluded two large-scale projects – Mega Maharashtra Highway (484 kms; Amravati-Jalgaon-Gujarat) and WalajÂahpet PoonÂamallee (93 kms). However, these projects were bid out at seemingly aggressive prices.
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Road projects in limbo
Slow progress in project execution coupled with subdued interest in bidding for new projects under current policy frame may give alternative option to call for revaluation or fresh bids for already allocated road projects. In order to avert this situation, a Performance Review Unit (PRU) proposed by the Planning Commission needs to be endowed with power to gather information from nodal agencies on clearances and incentivise or to regulate, writes Sumantra Das.
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Roads: Refocus on 20 km/day
This is the penultimate budget of the government before elections. The last budget usually is not one where big ticket reforms can be kicked in. Political comÂpulsions make those budgets populist
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Learn from highways to get processes right: Experts
If the nascent segment of rural roads must attract private participation to raise the quality bar,it needs to gain the confidence of the companies by doing its tendering processes right and offering government clearances upfront.Mahesh M Hiremath, COO, Karnataka Rural Roads Development Agency, one of the better state performers having upgraded nearly 15,000 km of rural roads to all-weather with an expenditure of Rs 3,371 crore under PMGSY.
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Infrascape 2012 | Rural roads: Modified EPC may be solution
Rural roads constituted over 84 per cent (2.65 million) of Indian Roads Network in 2010-11, and were constructed at the rate of 124 km per day. Around 80,195 km of rural roads were completed till March this year.