India Developing, but still a long way to go

[Water Car Engineer]

Awesome Mumbai Metro video

Chinese made coaches for the Mumbai Metro

 

[Yeti]

Not sure these been posted these are the first 2 buildings of GIFT city cladding is underway.

 

[patentneer]

Mumbai Monorail

^^^

Rail-Pel? No more ...

Now 'rail-monorail', only .

Aamchi Mono-Rail is fulltoo 1-2 ka 4, below .

 

[anyrandom]

Watch this excellent fountain video from GIFT!!!!

Can somebody tell me how the hell is that possible ??

 

[Abingdonboy]

Watch this excellent fountain video from GIFT!!!!

Can somebody tell me how the hell is that possible ??

Clever computers.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Phase 3 may open by year-end - Hindustan Times

NINE months early!

Delhi Metro's example needs to be followed by other in India-on time, on budget everytime.

 

[Abingdonboy]

 

[Abingdonboy]

The world is not flat, at least not in the housing and real estate industry, which has grown nearly 32 per cent in the last decade. The urban population is expected to be around 600 million by 2030 in a century which would see the majority of the people living in cities. If urbanisation in the country is to grow as predicted, the pressure on housing sector, needless to say, would increase. In such a scenario, vertical growth holds the answer in terms of filling the huge gap in demand versus supply. Hafeez Contractor, architect and a pioneer of high-rises, says, “When you are looking at such a large population over a small area of land, vertical is the only way to go.”

Take Mumbai for instance. The city’s population is predicted to rise to 30 million in the next two years. How will Mumbai deal with such an increase? “The only answer is to increase the FSI (floor space index). Only then the city can earn enough to create the infrastructure that will be needed to sustain this vertical growth,” says Rajan Bandelkar, director of Raunak Group. He spoke at the 11th Convention on Sustainable Housing for Masses organised by NAREDCO in Delhi.

Several areas in central Mumbai like Lalbaug and Parel, which until a few years ago had housing settlements, are now dotted with skyscrapers, and a good number are near completion or under construction.

In Delhi too, there has been a spate of construction of high rises, structures as high as 300 mt. Supertech is building the first highest residential building of North India, North Eye, in Sector 74, Noida, which is 255mt tall. The company also has Supernova in Sector-94, Noida, which it claims is the highest mixed-use development in Northern India with a height of 300mt. Many high rises in Gurgaon as well as Delhi with towers as high as 50 floors are underway or in different stages of execution. Of course, new methods used in construction and technology like Jump Form and Mi-Van, which are eons ahead of the conventional construction method, are amplifying the vertical growth in the industry.

Given the country’s high population density, high-rises are more convenient, developers argue. But, are Indian cities equipped to handle vertical growth? “Encouraging vertical growth is very important to the country’s future. Many successful land-constrained global cities like Hong Kong and New York have prospered as vertically-dense cities,” says Sunil Mantri of Mantri Realty. Can Indian cities match up to global high rise standards? Time will tell!

India sizes up vertical growth to meet rising demand | Magicbricks.com Property Pulse

Yamuna Expressway

 

[Abingdonboy]

Mumbai:

 

[karan21]

Mumbai. The vertical race is hitting every part of mumbai.

 

[Abingdonboy]

 

[karan21]

Meanwhile in Gift city, Is this the diamond tower?????

 

[Abingdonboy]

 

[yorohit79]

Watch this excellent fountain video from GIFT!!!!

Can somebody tell me how the hell is that possible ??

Amusing to see India's map showing only the Indian side of Kashmir, in this video.

Anyway, I guess it is time both countries accept ground realities and start to show realistic maps. Will be difficult to manage hardliners though.
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[Abingdonboy]

Trivandrum Airport-International Terminal:

Much needed in India: