Web Exclusive Oct 08, 2020 NHSRCL Invites Bids for Construction of Ahmedabad & Sabarmati Stations The National High Speed Rail Corp. Ltd has invited bids for the design and construction of about 18 km of the viaduct between Anand and Sabarmati including the high-speed rail (HSR) stations at Ahmedabad and Sabarmati for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR corridor.
Web Exclusive Sep 03, 2020 Metro Operations to Resume in Graded Manner from Sep 7 Minister of State (Independent Charge), Housing and Urban Affairs & Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri has announced the standard operating procedure (SOP) guidelines for metro rail operations. As per the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) order no. 40-3/2020-DM-I(A) of August 29, metro services will resume from September 7 in a graded manner.
Web Exclusive Nov 28, 2019 Series of measures taken to increase non-fare revenue: Railway Minister Indian Railways has taken a slew of measures including monetisation of land and other assets and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the bid to increase its share of the revenue from non-fare sources, Union Minister of Railways, Piyush Vedprakash Goyal informed Lok Sabha in a written reply to an unstarred question on Wednesday.
Interview Oct 01, 2019 When Railway Stations Would Resemble Airports! Imagine railway stations in India resembling airports! No fantasy, this! It's happening and happening at great speed.
Press Release Jul 01, 2019 Hitachi bags 106 Elevators Order Hitachi Building Systems and Hitachi Lift India have bagged a contract to supply a total of 106 elevator units by Phoenix Group for Phoenix Spaces 285 and Phoenix Aquila, which are large-scale office buildings to be constructed in Hyderabad, a major city in South India.
Feature Sep 01, 2018 How Smart is Your Smart City? A smart city is not automatically an equitable city unless its leaders take care to make it so. Some critics assert that the entire push to make cities smart is mainly about making life more convenient for the affluent.
Cover Story Jul 01, 2018 Need For Speed It is often pointed out that every rupee invested in ramping up the railway infrastructure benefits the economy six times over. Soon after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government came to power in May 2014, a committee was formed under Professor Bibek Debroy to restructure the Railway Board, the powerful body that oversees all technical and policy matters pertaining to the public-sector transporter. A majority of recommendations made by the senior economist at the New Delhi-based Centre of Policy Research was implemented. Two cross-functional directorates for non-tariff revenue and mobility, reporting directly to the Chairman of the Railway Board, were constituted. Powers were also delegated to general managers and divisional railway managers to expedite decision-making.
Web Exclusive Apr 06, 2018 Tata Communications gives lift security to next level with IoT Tata Communications is working with Surbana Jurong, one of Asia’s largest urban, industrial and infrastructure consulting firms, to equip its Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled lifts and escalators with secure, scalable connectivity to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
Perspective Mar 01, 2018 No-Frills Airports: Doing More With Less Currently, less than 3 per cent of India's 1.3 billion population flies and the Government of India, along with Airports Authority of India (AAI), is taking concrete steps to make flying affordable to more people in the nation.