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World Bank approves $1.5 billion for India’s rural roads scheme
The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $ 1.5 billion Credit and Loan for India’s Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) aimed towards improving rural accessibility of roads.
The new project will concentrate on the states of Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh, the Bank said in a statement.
Over the next five years, the project will aim to provide these states with an average connectivity of around 91 per cent by constructing 24,200 km of all-weather roads to benefit an estimated 6.1 million people.
The project will also develop a system for maintaining these roads in good condition over the long term.
“A good road network can generate many commercial and social benefits for rural economies through increasing access to goods as well as services such as health and education,” said the World Bank’s Country Director for India, Roberto Zagha.
The credit and loan is from the International Development Association (IDA) — the World Bank’s concessionary lending arm, which provides interest—free loans with 35 years to maturity and a 10—year grace period, and from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) which has a 5—year grace period, and a maturity of 18 years.
The program was established in the year 2000 to address the challenge of poor rural accessibility at a time when almost 40 per cent, or 300 million people in the country lacked access to unpaved roads.
And a large part of the existing 2.7 million km of the rural road network were in poor condition, impeding access to markets and increasing transportation costs.
While the PMGSY also called as Prime Minister’s Rural Roads Programme has since added 2,74,000 km of new roads, the vast parts of the country, especially the economically weaker districts and hilly areas, continue to remain inaccessible.
The project also includes $ 60 million in technical assistance to build the capacity of the rural roads agencies, especially in the ongoing management of assets and the sustainable maintenance of roads.
The Hindu : News : World Bank approves $1.5 billion for India’s rural roads scheme
The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $ 1.5 billion Credit and Loan for India’s Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) aimed towards improving rural accessibility of roads.
The new project will concentrate on the states of Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh, the Bank said in a statement.
Over the next five years, the project will aim to provide these states with an average connectivity of around 91 per cent by constructing 24,200 km of all-weather roads to benefit an estimated 6.1 million people.
The project will also develop a system for maintaining these roads in good condition over the long term.
“A good road network can generate many commercial and social benefits for rural economies through increasing access to goods as well as services such as health and education,” said the World Bank’s Country Director for India, Roberto Zagha.
The credit and loan is from the International Development Association (IDA) — the World Bank’s concessionary lending arm, which provides interest—free loans with 35 years to maturity and a 10—year grace period, and from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) which has a 5—year grace period, and a maturity of 18 years.
The program was established in the year 2000 to address the challenge of poor rural accessibility at a time when almost 40 per cent, or 300 million people in the country lacked access to unpaved roads.
And a large part of the existing 2.7 million km of the rural road network were in poor condition, impeding access to markets and increasing transportation costs.
While the PMGSY also called as Prime Minister’s Rural Roads Programme has since added 2,74,000 km of new roads, the vast parts of the country, especially the economically weaker districts and hilly areas, continue to remain inaccessible.
The project also includes $ 60 million in technical assistance to build the capacity of the rural roads agencies, especially in the ongoing management of assets and the sustainable maintenance of roads.
The Hindu : News : World Bank approves $1.5 billion for India’s rural roads scheme
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Local firms set to pounce on India highway projects
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian construction companies are expected to be involved in the massive development of highways in India as early as the first half of next year under the recently inked memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two governments.
Malaysia and India signed the MoU on Monday to promote technical assistance services in highway development and management in India.
Malaysian construction players are slated to participate in the development of 1,000km of highways in India that could potentially be worth RM17.5bil.
India's Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath told StarBiz that the first project under this initiative was expected to roll out in the next six months.
“Although currently Malaysian construction companies have been participating in India's infrastructure development, we want to take this to the next level where we want to enhance not only in terms of the numbers of players involved but also in the length of kilometres undertaken.
“The opportunities are not only restricted to the building of highways. There are also other areas such as landscaping, tolling technologies as well as management and maintenance of highways.
“India has a major infrastructure programme as we have a huge infrastructure deficit because our growth has preceded infrastructure development.
“At the moment we are not building for the future but we are catching up with the past,” he said.
It is reported that India has embarked on a major road construction programme where 7,000km of roads are expected to be developed annually.
To date, Malaysian companies have been involved in 74 construction projects worth RM14bil in India, half of which were road infrastructure projects.
Kamal said Malaysia was the only country with which India had developed this kind of arrangement under the MoU.
“That demonstrates our relationship, where Malaysia has the strength and skills in the road sector coupled with its construction capacity that we need in India,” he said.
On details of the MoU, Kamal said that identified projects would go through a price discovery mechanism which would have to be mutually agreed by both governments.
“In India, you cannot have one-size-fits-all for road construction costs; there will be a basket of price discovery mechanisms and we are working on this starting today.
“Then together with the Construction Industry Development Board, we will assign the projects to the respective companies,” he said, adding that previously Malaysian companies had done direct bids but this was a new level of engagement.
To recap, India's Road Transport and Highways Ministry had in June last year started “towards 20km a day” programme for national highways. Towards this, 201 projects with a total length of 9,923km had been awarded between October 2009 and September this year.
With the award of these projects, the total work in progress currently stands at 14,704km where a further 10,665km will be awarded this year and next. Thus next year, according to the ministry, it would have work in progress in excess of 25,000km.
Local firms set to pounce on India highway projects
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian construction companies are expected to be involved in the massive development of highways in India as early as the first half of next year under the recently inked memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two governments.
Malaysia and India signed the MoU on Monday to promote technical assistance services in highway development and management in India.
Malaysian construction players are slated to participate in the development of 1,000km of highways in India that could potentially be worth RM17.5bil.
India's Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath told StarBiz that the first project under this initiative was expected to roll out in the next six months.
“Although currently Malaysian construction companies have been participating in India's infrastructure development, we want to take this to the next level where we want to enhance not only in terms of the numbers of players involved but also in the length of kilometres undertaken.
“The opportunities are not only restricted to the building of highways. There are also other areas such as landscaping, tolling technologies as well as management and maintenance of highways.
“India has a major infrastructure programme as we have a huge infrastructure deficit because our growth has preceded infrastructure development.
“At the moment we are not building for the future but we are catching up with the past,” he said.
It is reported that India has embarked on a major road construction programme where 7,000km of roads are expected to be developed annually.
To date, Malaysian companies have been involved in 74 construction projects worth RM14bil in India, half of which were road infrastructure projects.
Kamal said Malaysia was the only country with which India had developed this kind of arrangement under the MoU.
“That demonstrates our relationship, where Malaysia has the strength and skills in the road sector coupled with its construction capacity that we need in India,” he said.
On details of the MoU, Kamal said that identified projects would go through a price discovery mechanism which would have to be mutually agreed by both governments.
“In India, you cannot have one-size-fits-all for road construction costs; there will be a basket of price discovery mechanisms and we are working on this starting today.
“Then together with the Construction Industry Development Board, we will assign the projects to the respective companies,” he said, adding that previously Malaysian companies had done direct bids but this was a new level of engagement.
To recap, India's Road Transport and Highways Ministry had in June last year started “towards 20km a day” programme for national highways. Towards this, 201 projects with a total length of 9,923km had been awarded between October 2009 and September this year.
With the award of these projects, the total work in progress currently stands at 14,704km where a further 10,665km will be awarded this year and next. Thus next year, according to the ministry, it would have work in progress in excess of 25,000km.
Local firms set to pounce on India highway projects
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Wind energy in India
GOI is giving a lot of emphasis on clean energy. India is currently producing 11,000 MW of power from wind. We have a potential to increase it to 40,000-50,000 MW.
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Metro cruises on test run
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FLYING COLOURS:The train did two technical test runs, which were pronounced a success.
BANGALORE: The dreams of tens of thousands of traffic-weary commuters in Bangalore to travel by the metro rail came closer to reality on Monday when Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) conducted the longest yet technical test run of the train.
People looked up to see the train, with three coaches in tow, cruise on the new tracks between the Byappanahalli and C.M.H. Road stations, a distance of about 2 km, on Monday afternoon, marking a major milestone on the road to the metro in Bangalore.
Restricted speed
The train, which moved at a restricted speed of 25 kmph, also did the second test run on the same tracks with several BMRCL workers on board. “It passed off well. We did not encounter any teething problems. The train ran for 8 km and we are satisfied,” BMRCL spokesperson B.L. Yasavanth Chavan told The Hindu. “Along with the tracks, we had to check the third rail, which is adjacent to the main tracks, used to energise the train,” he added.
The next test will be between Byappanahalli and M.G. Road Station in the next two or three weeks. “We are waiting for the work on alignment of the tracks and so on to be completed,” he said.
Safety certification
Only after the technical tests are completed will the BMRCL go for the trial run, leading to certification by the Commissioner for Railway Safety.
“The metro will be officially inaugurated only after [he] declares it fit for passenger use,” Mr. Chavan said.
Though BMRCL has not scheduled the likely date for the metro's inauguration, sources said it could be by March this year.
This first train set arrived in Bangalore during the last week of October.
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FLYING COLOURS:The train did two technical test runs, which were pronounced a success.
BANGALORE: The dreams of tens of thousands of traffic-weary commuters in Bangalore to travel by the metro rail came closer to reality on Monday when Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) conducted the longest yet technical test run of the train.
People looked up to see the train, with three coaches in tow, cruise on the new tracks between the Byappanahalli and C.M.H. Road stations, a distance of about 2 km, on Monday afternoon, marking a major milestone on the road to the metro in Bangalore.
Restricted speed
The train, which moved at a restricted speed of 25 kmph, also did the second test run on the same tracks with several BMRCL workers on board. “It passed off well. We did not encounter any teething problems. The train ran for 8 km and we are satisfied,” BMRCL spokesperson B.L. Yasavanth Chavan told The Hindu. “Along with the tracks, we had to check the third rail, which is adjacent to the main tracks, used to energise the train,” he added.
The next test will be between Byappanahalli and M.G. Road Station in the next two or three weeks. “We are waiting for the work on alignment of the tracks and so on to be completed,” he said.
Safety certification
Only after the technical tests are completed will the BMRCL go for the trial run, leading to certification by the Commissioner for Railway Safety.
“The metro will be officially inaugurated only after [he] declares it fit for passenger use,” Mr. Chavan said.
Though BMRCL has not scheduled the likely date for the metro's inauguration, sources said it could be by March this year.
This first train set arrived in Bangalore during the last week of October.
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Top American graduates heading to India for employment
We are going in the right direction. But still need a masive investment in sectors like Power, Public Transport, Education (specially R & D)..etc
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