India's urban infrastructure is growing at a phenomenal pace, but due to improper urban planning in the past, growth is not able to match the pace of economic activities in the urban areas, says Kumar Ramesh.
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Expertspeak: Towards a corporate attitude
Indian Railways needs to tweak its procedures towards competing with the road logistics sector and communicate more effectively with its stakeholders in order to unleash its true potential, says Anurag Mishra.
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Vox Pop: Experts provide solutions for urban wastewater management
From what model of PPP will work in our urban wastewater management to how they can move from a mostly secondary treatment to tertiary and make water viable, policymakers, city administrators and wastewater practitioners offer solutions.
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Maritime Agenda 2020: The awaited lift, finally
Reactive is better than non-active. The fact that the Maritime Agenda 2020 is the biggest documentation of our future vision in maritime ever is both heartening and concerning.
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Royal Haskoning: Global experience, local application
Royal Haskoning has been active in India since 1950s, and has played a major role in some of the largest ports and industrial projects in the country including Ennore Port and Project Seabird, as well as shipyard developments like DGNP Mumbai, Mazagon Dock and Nana Layia.
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Time to validate our systems
Let us herald the New Year with some heartening news for Indian infrastructure.
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Bumper to bummer
What our cities must get right before jumping to future transport options. “Why focus on urban transport?†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.
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Analysis: Dealing with inadequacies, salvaging lifelines
The next decade is set to witness tremendous growth in rail and bus based urban transport systems like MRTS, BRTS and variants.
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Management: Reviving the suburban rail, the Six Sigma way
One cannot ignore the fact that Mumbai’s deteriorating physical infrastructure has diverted sizable new opportunities to Bangalore, Hyderabad and other cities.