India Developing, but still a long way to go

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DELHI

 

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mumbai metro link construction images

 

[peaceful]

It is about 50 years behind Japan:

You can keep planning, dreaming, but not every nation can get to this point:

You need long term vision, intelligent people and leader, and honesty:

 

[Dalai Lama]

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Poor piece-full.

 

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DELHI airport exitway

 

[Aryavart]

India Bringing Railways upto the Peak of Himalaya. One of the Modern Engineering Marvel In Indian History

Garhwal rail plan pilgrims’ delight - The Times of India

 

[Aryavart]

NOW MARINE DRIVE IN PATNA

The 40KM Patna Ganga driveway at Bank of Ganges gives the look of Thames Path of London. This is Dream project of Nitish which is his part of Vision 2021.Project will cost 24K Crore Rupee and it will complete in 2014.

Bihar going good..Nitish will bring back Golden Era of Magadh and Patliputra . Tons of Thanks to Nitish govt and people pf bihar.With marine drive, will Patna be the new maximum city? - The Times of India

 

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1st planned skyscraper in delhi

At Kathputli Colony near Patel Nagar in west Delhi, strings and puppets are making way for the capital's tallest building. With a planned height of 190m, and 54 floors, Raheja Phoenix will not only be the city's first true skyscraper (generally defined as a building taller than 150m) but also a sounding board for its elite's residential preferences.

In a city where garden bungalows are the height of aspirational living, and lower floors fetch a premium in residential towers, selling apartments worth crores at vertiginous heights might prove a challenge, feel experts. But they also believe the success of this project could be the long-awaited stimulus for a gradual transformation of the city's skyline.

Anshuman Magazine, head of international property consultants CBRE, says the time has come for Delhi to grow vertically, especially because land prices have skyrocketed. And breaking from the city's mid-rise trend - residential buildings of 12-15 floors - some developers are already constructing premium residential towers of 20 or more floors.

Will low-rise Delhi take to high living? - The Times of India

 

[IndoCarib]

Mumbai metro U/C

 

[SpArK]

All accused in cash-for-votes scam gets bail



Long live corruption.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Metro to reach cities with 20 lakh population

New Delhi: Cities having a population of 20 lakh or more will soon have Metro facility. The announcement, which is sure to come as a big relief to the people of numerous cities of this country, was made by Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday.

This move is said to be initiated to meet the increasing needs of the nation for an improved and efficient transit system.

The Union Minister said that work on phase four of Delhi Metro will start soon. Kamal Nath added that Delhi will get 104 Kilometres route and seven lines in fourth phase of the Metro rail project.

Addressing the media Kamal Nath revealed, “Government has sanctioned Rs 35, 242 crore for phase III Metro rail project in Delhi. This is the largest urban infrastructure project in the country till date.”

Talking about the harrowing experience that the daily commuters face in Delhi, the Union Minister said, “Phase four of the Metro project will be ready by 2016. Once this project is complete, Metro will carry 40 lakh passengers every day.”

Notably, project report on Ahmedabad and Lucknow Metro rail is ready and a survey on Indore, Chandigarh and Bhopal Metro rail is underway.

On the long-pending Metro project in Kochi, the Minister said the proposal for building a 25.3-km network in the Kerala city would be taken to the Union Cabinet in the next 15 days.

He said projects such as Mumbai Line-III (Colaba-Mahim/Bandra corridor) funded by both Central and state governments and Jaipur Metro stage-II, highspeed metro linking Bangalore city with the airport and extension of Chennai Metro under the PPP model.


“A detailed project on Lucknow Metro has been sent to UP government. We are waiting for their reply,” Kamal Nath said.

Nath also proposed to bring in standardisation in all areas of Metro Rail systems with an aim to achieve reduction in cost through economies of scale and increase competition.

To make sure that Metro operations provide networked connectivity, all projects should establish a Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority to create a National Common Mobility Card for fare integration, he said.

"Since Metro Railway is a Railway which is a Central subject, it has been decided that all Metro Rail projects in the country, whether within one municipal are or beyond, shall be taken up under the Central Metro Acts only," he said.

On why the construction of Kolkata Metro Phase-II was given to the Indian Railways, Nath said it was a continuation process as the Phase-I was built by it.


Implicit in the Urban Development Minister’s announcement is Centre’s policy to focus on the development and promotion of the public transport systems across India.

With most of the cities in India being overcrowded and not having an efficient public transport system, any effort by the government in this direction is sure to be a welcome step.

http://zeenews.**********/business/economy/metro-to-reach-cities-with-20-lakh-population_34098.html

Chennai Metro U/C

How Kochi Metro Rail looks? - India's first Maglev Rail System

Kochi Metro Rail will be the first of its kind in India as it is confirmed the use of Magnetic Levitation System which is only found in Japan and Korea....

Hyderabad U/C

Jaipur Metro U/C

Mumbai metro U/C

Navi Mumbai work site

 

[DMLA]

Howrah - Dhanbad AC double decker superfast. More to be launched on other routes including Amritsar - Delhi. Should be good for anyone coming in from Wagah and trying to reach Delhi.

 

[Varad]

Delay pushes Metro cost up 7 crore a day

LUCKNOW: As the proposed Metro rail project in the city fails to cross the planning stage, its escalating cost has hit the roof. With the delay of each passing day adding an additional burden of Rs 7 crore to the cost, the project will become unviable if not started immediately, caution experts.

Union urban development minister Kamal Nath on Thursday slammed the BSP government for the tardy progress of the project conceptualized three years ago. The UP government has chosen not to react to Kamal Nath's charges. UP's housing minister, Naseemuddin Siddiqui told TOI: "Whatever we have done is on record. I can't comment without checking facts." Government sources privy to the developments pertaining to the project, however, confirmed that the cost of the project was indeed the biggest hurdle.

Going by the UP government records, the estimated cost of project rose by around Rs 227 crore every month between January and July when the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) submitted its detailed project report. A brief summary on the project prepared by the high-level committee of the state government in January estimated the cost of the project at Rs 11,077 crore. This escalated to Rs 12,671 crore by July, which is well over Rs 1,500 crore. The rise was ostensibly because of the rise in taxes and duties, besides the rise in the cost of cement, steel and other essential materials.

When the project was conceptualized in September 2008, the project was pegged at Rs 8,200 crore. It was amended from time to time during the gradual course of consultation with the DMRC which was asked to prepare a detailed project report by the state government in 2009. The DMRC submitted the DPR in July this year. DMRC chairman E Shreedharan in recent interview to TOI said that on an average the cost of the project will rise heavily.

Any further delay, not surprisingly, may derail the project, giving ample opportunity to the Centre and the opposition to lambast the government on development issues. The project has already snowballed into a political controversy with Kamal Nath squarely charging the UP government of not taking adequate steps to set the project on track.

The UP government is still not certain how to finance the project. Earlier, the project was conceptualized on the DMRC model under which 50% of the finances are made available by the Centre while the rest is provided by the state, which may also raise funds by entering into an agreement with private players and forming a special purpose vehicle (SPV). The model, which has been adopted by Hyderabad, would require the state government to shell out at least Rs 6,000 crore. But the state government did not make any provisions in the supplementary budget that was put forth in the state assembly in August earlier this year.

The public private partnership (PPP), is another model that the state government has been considering for quite some time. But that will again be a challenging task considering adequate footfalls to sustain the project. "The rate of return needs to be not less than 12%. If it is less than that the project would be termed financially unviable,'' said a senior government official closely associated with the project.

However, sources said that the state government has informed the DMRC that it intends to start the project by March 2012, with the first leg getting completed by 2017.

Delay pushes Metro cost up 7 crore a day - The Times of India

 

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SMHPCL hydro project

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Indira Sagar Dam

Mundra power project