DMRC to help build Dhaka Metro

[Bilal9]

The difference between you guys and we Indians are; you guys keep your eyes in gutter and we strive to make our infrastructure world-class.

It's called keeping our feet firmly planted in reality...and not being delusional...

 

[my2cents]

Are Indians now denying that Pakistan was exploiting BD in the 1947-1971 period?

Dude one of the main reasons the old Pakistan broke up was that BD export revenue was being used to build up Pakistan and not being fairly shared.

India is not a patch on BD economically. Let us see just how much quicker BD grows this financial compared to India.

Even assuming that Pakistan was exploiting BD, you guys were never on par with Pakistan.

Your politicians have exploited you guys and have not done anything to show you deserved it.

 

[Bilal9]

Even assuming that Pakistan was exploiting BD, you guys were never on par with Pakistan.

Your politicians have exploited you guys and have not done anything to show you deserved it.

 

[dray]

Rapid transit in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rapid transit in India

Rapid transit in India consists of bus, metro, monorail and light rail systems. The first rapid transit system in India was the Kolkata Metro, which started operations in 1984. The Delhi Metro was India's first modern metro and the third rapid transit system in India overall, after the Kolkata Metro and Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System (Chennai MRTS), beginning operations in 2002. Rapid Metro Rail Gurgaon, which started operations in November 2013, is India's first privately owned and operated metro.[1] The Mumbai Monorail, which opened on 7 February 2014 is the first monorail in India, since the closing of the Patiala State Monorail Trainways in 1927.

In 2009, it was decided to invest 2000 billion (US$33.2 billion) on metro rail projects in the following ten years.[2] It is planned that all Indian cities having population more that 2 million will have metro rail system.[3] Currently, rapid transit systems operate in 15 cities and more are under construction or in planning in several cities of India.[4]

Bus Rapid Transit System
Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) is a rapid transit for city bus service in India. The following table shows BRTS in India along with details.

Green background for the systems that are under construction. Blue background for the systems that are currently in planning.

System City Start of Operations System Lines System Length (KM) Stations
Ahmedabad BRTS Ahmedabad 14 October 2009 12 75 126
Delhi BRTS Delhi 2008 7 115.5
Indore BRTS Indore 2013 10 126.46
Jaipur BRTS Jaipur July 2010 2
Pune BRTS Pune December 2006 2 16.5
Rajkot BRTS Rajkot 1 October 2012 1 63 19
Surat BRTS Surat 26 January 2014 2 29.9 50
Vijayawada BRTS Vijayawada 2011
Bhopal BRTS Bhopal 10 186 230
Bhubaneswar BRTS Bhubaneswar 2015 2 66.32 TBD
Hubli-Dharwad BRTS Hubli, Dharwad 2014 2 70 33
Kolkata BRTS Kolkata 1 15.5
Mumbai BRTS Mumbai 2014 1 11.7
Pimpri-Chinchwad BRTS Pimpri-Chinchwad 4 112
Visakapatnam BRTS Visakapatnam 42
Bangalore BRTS Bangalore 14 282
Chennai BRTS Chennai 1 70.3 21
Coimbatore BRTS Coimbatore 1 27.6
Hyderabad BRTS Hyderabad 2 39
Lucknow BRTS Lucknow
Madurai BRTS Madurai 2
Mysore BRTS Mysore
Nagpur BRTS Nagpur
Tiruchirappalli BRTS Tiruchirappalli 2 24
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Metro rail


Mumbai Metro
Metro rail lines in India are composed of both standard gauge and broad gauge. Projects like the Delhi Metro used broad gauge for their earliest lines but most new projects in India are on standard gauge as rolling stock imported from Europe is on Standard Gauge. One exception is the Ahmedabad Metro, which will use Broad gauge, as there is more space available inside the coach.[5] In the long term, using Broad gauge may also allow for freight movement of containers from the Indian Railway network on the Metro train network and increased capacity within the train cars.[citation needed]Although Metro supposed to be mass rapid transit system, Indian metro trains are slower than their counterparts in other parts of the world, as they are mostly overground and have sharp curves. For example, Bangalore metro has a maximum speed of 40.5 km/h on curves with average speed of 30 km/h and Hyderabad Metro will have average speed of 25 km/h.[6][7]

Green background for the systems that are under construction. Blue background for the systems that are currently in planning.

City System Start of operations System Length No of Lines Notes
IO1 P2 UC3 IO1 P2 UC3

Kolkata Kolkata Metro
24 October 1984 28.4 km 90 km 1 14 5 First mass rapid transit system in India and the 17th zone of the Indian Railways.

Chennai Chennai MRTS
1 November 1995 19.34 km 1 It is planned for the MRTS to be taken over by the Chennai Metro Rail Limited once the Chennai Metro becomes operational.

Delhi Delhi Metro
24 December 2002 192.7 km 6 2 India's first modern rapid transit system.

Bangalore Namma Metro
20 October 2011 16.6 km 114.39 42.3 km 2 2 First metro in India to introduce Wi-Fi onboard trains.[8]

Gurgaon Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon
14 November 2013 5.1 km 1 1 India's first fully privately financed metro,[9] and the first metro system in the country to auction naming rights for its stations.[10]

Mumbai Mumbai Metro
8 June 2014 11.40 km 1 7 India's first PPP metro project in which all the three phases (construction, operation and maintenance) were given to a private player.[11]

Jaipur Jaipur Metro September 2014[12] 32.5 km 2 1

Chennai Chennai Metro October 2014[13] 45.1 km[14] 2

Hyderabad Hyderabad Metro March 2015[15] 71.6 km 3

Navi Mumbai Navi Mumbai Metro 2016 106.4 km[16] 4 1

Kochi Kochi Metro
2016 25.6 km 1 Kochi is the first Tier-II city in India to be granted a metro under the Central Government's plan to allow cities having population more than 20 lakhs to have a metro rail system.[17]

Lucknow Lucknow Metro 2017 36 km

Ahmedabad & Gandhinagar MetroLink Express Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) 2018 83 km[18] 5

Bhopal Bhopal Metro 3

Chandigarh Chandigarh Metro 2018 37.5 km 7

Indore Indore Metro 2020 30 km 3

Kanpur Kanpur Metro 2018 84 km 8

Ludhiana Ludhiana Metro 2017–18 2

Nagpur Nagpur Metro 39.8 km

Nasik Greater Nasik Metro Proposed Metro line which will connect Igatpuri,
Deolali, Nasik Road, Nasik Central and Ojhar Airport[19]

Patna Patna Metro 2016 60 km 2

Pune Pune Metro 2018 82 km 4

Surat Surat Metro 2018 3

Vizag Vizag Metro[20]

Mumbai Western railway elevated corridor 2020 63.27 km 1

Guwahati Guwahati Metro 44.2 km 2

National Capital Region National Capital Region Metro 2021 381 km [21] 3 The National Capital Region Transport Corporation Limited (NCRTC) is proposed as the implementing agency for taking up the RRTS project in the NCR.[22]
1In operation Number of lines currently operating. Line is considered to be operating if services are running on at least one section.
2Planned Lines that are planned to be built but construction has not yet started
3Under construction Number of lines currently under construction. Does not include lines that are "In operation".

Monorail
The first monorail in India was the Kundala Valley Railway in Kundala Valley, near Munnar, Kerala. It was a privately owned monorail system, that operated from 1902 to 1908. That year the system was converted to a narrow gauge railway, which operated till 1924, when it was destroyed completely by floods.[23] The Patiala State Monorail Trainways which opened in February 1907 and closed in 1927 was the second monorail system in India.[24][25]

The Mumbai Monorail, which opened on 2 February 2014 is the first operational monorail in India, since the closing of the Patiala State Monorail Trainways in 1927.[26] Many other Indian cities have monorail projects, as a feeder system to the metro, in different phases of planning.

Pink background for the systems that are terminated.Green background for the systems that are under-construction. Blue background for the systems that are currently in planning.

City System Operations began System length (km) Lines Stations
Munnar Kundala Valley Railway 1902-1908 5 km 1
Patiala Patiala State Monorail Trainways 1907-1927 80 km 1
Mumbai Mumbai Monorail 2 February 2014 8.26 km 1 7
Kozhikode Kozhikode Monorail 2015 14.5 km 1 15
Chennai Chennai Monorail 2018 57 km 3 37
Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram Monorail 2016 41.8 km 1 19
Allahabad Allahabad Monorail 70.4 km 2
Bangalore Bangalore Monorail 60 km
Coimbatore Coimbatore Monorail
Delhi Delhi Monorail 90 km
Indore Indore Monorail
Kanpur Kanpur Monorail 63 km
Kolkata Kolkata Monorail 72 km
Navi Mumbai Navi Mumbai Monorail 36.82 km
Patna Patna Monorail 32 km
Pune Pune Monorail 52 km
Ahmedabad Ahmedabad Monorail 30 km 4
Aizawl Aizawl Monorail 5 km
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Light rail
Green background for the systems that are currently under construction. Blue background for the systems that are currently in planning.

System City Opening Year System length (km) No. of lines
Delhi Light Rail Transit Delhi 45 3
Kolkata LRTS Kolkata 2
Pune LRTS Pune 2

Legislation
Main articles: The Metro Railways Act, 1978 and Metro Railway Act, 2002
Initially, state governments attempted to implement metro rail projects through various Tramways Act. However, the Commissioner of Railways Safety (CRS), who operates under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, is tasked with providing safety certification for metro rail projects. The CRS refused safety certification unless the projects were implemented under a Metro Act enacted by the state government and published in The Gazette of India.[27] Research Design and Standards Organization (RDSO), another railway entity, also refuses certification to projects not implemented under the criteria. Subsequently, several state governments have enacted their own Metro Acts.[27]

Construction of metros in India are governed by the centrally enacted "The Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978" which defines itself as an act to provide for the construction of works relating to metro railways in the metropolitan cities and for matters connected therewith.[28] Operation and maintenance of metros is governed by "The Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002". Both laws were amended in 2009 with the passing of "The Metro Railways (Amendment) Act, 2009".[29] The amendment expanded the coverage of both the acts to all metropolitan areas of India.

According to Ministry of Urban Development (India) Kamal Nath, ""Since the Metro rail is a central subject, it has been decided that all such projects in the country, whether within one municipal area or beyond, shall be taken up under the Central Metro Acts."[30] The ministry of urban development (MoUD) is the nodal agency to execute metro rail projects in the next 10 years in all Indian cities with a population of more than two million. However, The Metro Railways Amendment Act, 2009, empowers the ministry of railways to take the final call in respect of technical planning and safety issues concerning these projects. In November 2013, the MoUD moved a Cabinet note suggesting a series of further amendments to the Act. The proposals had previously been rejected by the railways on the grounds that it would lead to a conflict of interest and would make the MoUD a business competitor.[31]

Metro coach factories in India
Bangalore
BEML manufactures Rolling Stock for Delhi Metro and Namma Metro in a consortium with Hyundai Rotem BEML has supplied more than 200 coaches to DMRC and has an order of 150 coaches from Bangalore Metro. Jaipur Metro has also ordered to manufacture, supply, test and commission 10 train sets of four-car each, totalling 40 cars to Jaipur Metro Project.[citation needed] BEML is one of the leading manufacturer of Rail and Metro coaches.[citation needed] Metro Systems using/will be using BEML Rolling Stocks are:[citation needed]

• Delhi Metro - 200 coaches
• Namma Metro - 150 coaches
• Jaipur Metro - 40 coaches
• Hyderabad Metro - 171 coaches

Savli
Bombardier built a £26m factory in Savli, Gujarat after it won a contract to supply 614 cars to the Delhi Metro.[32] Production at Savli began in June 2009.[33]

In June 2012, the plant won an order to supply semi-finished bogies to Australia.[33]

Sri City
In 2013, Alstom built a factory in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh after it won a €243 million contract to supply 168 cars to the Chennai Metro.[34] The 156-acre plant will be used to supply trains to cities in India and abroad.[35]

 

[Bombaywalla]

Awww -- now now. Don't be bringing up Ramzaan...

Kryptonite for evil Muslims - huh?

The truth always hurts.....

The point I was making is that the Indian Metro rolling stock is going to be just as shitty and unsafe as the IR stuff - it always has been...

You're defending the indefensible. We don't do this in Bangladesh so why can't you?

I'll bring up whatever I choose to bring up whenever I please.

I think the real question here is, How dense is dense? You're STILL a fool, and an ignorant one at that if you make statements such as, "The point I was making is that the Indian Metro rolling stock is going to be just as shitty and unsafe as the IR stuff - it always has been...".

 

[my2cents]

India 'most dangerous place in world to be born a girl'

India is the most dangerous place in the world to be born a girl, with females almost twice as likely to die before reaching the age of five, according to new UN figures.

The report, which analyses differences between male and female child mortality rates over the last 40 years, reveals that from 2000 to 2010 there were 56 deaths of boys aged one to five for every 100 female deaths.

Indian campaigners for the rights of girls said the figures reflected widespread discrimination against girls, ranging from neglect to abuse and killing of unwanted female infants.

The figures, compiled by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, emerged as India was plunged into introspection over the case of a two year old girl fighting for her life in hospital after being abandoned by her family and trafficked between several adults before being beaten, bitten and branded by a 14 year old girl. The girl, known as Falak, is suffering from severe chest injuries and brain damage and according to her doctors is unlikely to survive the next 48 hours.

Girls are widely regarded as a burden to Indian families who fear the high costs of their weddings and resent spending money on their education only for them later to leave the home to marry.

Many women abort pregnancies when they believe they will deliver a girl, often under pressure from their husbands or in-laws who favour boys.

Campaigners believe there may have been as many as eight million cases of 'female foeticide' in India over the last decade.

This discrimination has driven India's sex ratio progressively lower.

Census statistics show it fell from 976 girls per 1000 boys in 1961 to 914 in 2011.

But according to campaigners the figures hide the cruelty and neglect suffered by girls kept by their families, in particular from malnutrition and denial of medical treatment.

Ranjana Kumari of the Council for Social Research said Indian mothers breast feed girls for a far shorter period than they do their sons and feed them less well because they fear good nourishment will speed the advent of puberty and the need for a costly wedding. While boys are taken immediately to hospital, sick girls are kept waiting because their families do not have the same interest in their survival.

"They think they need to feed the boy, but there is less desire for the girl to survive, it is common in rural India. Boys are immediately taken to the doctor, but not the girl. She is the last to get the medicine," she said.

Female infanticide was also a factor in the UN figures, she added. "It has been a practice in central India for a long time, where mothers were made to feed the child with salt to kill the girl child."

 

[Echo_419]

GDP/capita dude.

Look at progress of unitary Japan, France, Germany and even China. Multi-ethnic states will always be behind economically.

Multi-ethnic India still has mass starvation after nearly 7 decades of independence.

GDP per capita is no doubt imp
But you cannot ignore nominal GDP
Hell y your logic Romania is better than China becauz of a higher Percapita income
& even on that front you are behind us

 

[damiendehorn]

As if they are very rich people with almost half of our per capita income.

Either stop lying or go back to school to learn basic maths.

2014 India per capita GDP: $1584 (cal at 2010 base rate)
2014 Bangladesh per capita: $1180 (cal at 2005 base rate, if cal at 2010 like indias then GDP per cap would be above $1300)

Current Indian GDP only exceeds Bangladesh GDP by 34%, plus Bangladesh has about 2% higher growth then india.

 

[gslv mk3]

Either stop lying or go back to school to learn basic maths.

2014 India per capita GDP: $1584 (cal at 2010 base rate)
2014 Bangladesh per capita: $1180 (cal at 2005 base rate, if cal at 2010 like indias then GDP per cap would be above $1300)

Current Indian GDP only exceeds Bangladesh GDP by 34%, plus Bangladesh has about 2% higher growth then india.

links ?

Dude - BD economy is very stable and is already providing the funding for the 2 billion dollar plus Padma bridge. Once complete it will be the largest infrastructure project in BD.

Some economic numbers for you to ponder:

1. 2013-2014 GDP growth rate: 6.2%
2. 2013-2014 export growth rate: 11%
3. BD government debt : 18% of GDP when compared to 34% a decade earlier
4. BD government spending: 17% of GDP from 14% a decade earlier.

What is all this data telling us? BD is in a far better financial position to build infrastructure with its own resources now. It will still take soft loans from Japan/IMF/ADB/World bank but will also build infrastructure with its own resources as well.

Not my point.My question is how will BD overtake India in infrastructure.

 

[Screambowl]

Either stop lying or go back to school to learn basic maths.

2014 India per capita GDP: $1584 (cal at 2010 base rate)
2014 Bangladesh per capita: $1180 (cal at 2005 base rate, if cal at 2010 like indias then GDP per cap would be above $1300)

Current Indian GDP only exceeds Bangladesh GDP by 34%, plus Bangladesh has about 2% higher growth then india.

you have poor knowledge of economy. It will take more than 5 decades to cover that 34%.

India:
GDP
$1.87 trillion (nominal: 10th; 2013)[3]

$5.07 trillion (PPP: 3rd; 2013)[3]

GDP growth

4.7% (2013)

Bangladesh:
GDP
$173.8 billion ((nominal) 37th; 2014 est.)[1]

$419.2 billion ((PPP) 36th; 2012-2013 est.)[2] BD poverty rate set to drop as economy crosses $400b mark | FIRST PAGE | Financial Express :: Financial Newspaper of Bangladesh
GDP growth 6.1% (2013-14 est.)

 

[gslv mk3]

The point I was making is that the Indian Metro rolling stock is going to be just as shitty and unsafe as the IR stuff

Supposedly 'world-class' metro services with third-rate Indian Metro coaches (appropriate for Indian conditions)

You cannot differentiate between a Suburban rail & a metro..LMAO

 

[damiendehorn]

links ?



Not my point.My question is how will BD overtake India in infrastructure.

Sure Link: Economy of Bangladesh - Page 110 - SkyscraperCity
Tribune link: Per capita income now $1,180 | Dhaka Tribune

 

[dray]

Either stop lying or go back to school to learn basic maths.

2014 India per capita GDP: $1584 (cal at 2010 base rate)
2014 Bangladesh per capita: $1180 (cal at 2005 base rate, if cal at 2010 like indias then GDP per cap would be above $1300)

Current Indian GDP only exceeds Bangladesh GDP by 34%, plus Bangladesh has about 2% higher growth then india.

GDP per capita (current US$) | Data | Table

The World Factbook

Loudmouth Bangladeshi.

@gslv mk3 check this.

 

[gslv mk3]

Like I say, India should not think it can compete with BD economically. Fast growing garments exports will propel the BD economy for another 10 years while other sectors like engineering, shipbuilding, IT and pharmaceuticals are developed.

Jamati Delusions again.Only this garments industry is there in Bangladesh,other sectors are weak.Shipbuilding ? Make a ship displacing more than 10,000 DWT before commenting!

Engineering ? What ? Heavy engineering ? Develop a two stroke engine first.

 

[Screambowl]

the thread is about metro. lets remain to that.