Fantastic pic.'s. Nagpur metro pillars are the most advanced re: civil works.
Technically speaking, TBM's are India's magic wand. India got lucky.
India's infrastructure push, cheap Global finance and India's economic resurgence have come together to make India TBM country. The Himalayas and metro boring is escalating and is likely to further accelerate. For the size of the works involved, India is lucky for the above things to come together at the approx. right time even if TBM's tech. preceded India's infra push and money a couple of decades after the Channel boring project in EU.
Re: critical feedback, I would like to see Indian e-TBM's, designed and made in India with battery and direct electric drive running of training electric wire. L&T, Escorts, Tata, BEML are missing form action. Existing and said dredging and mining OEM's should also consider moving into canal building aggregates, which may be mechanically a simpler and easier TBM. Indian govt. too should turn India into a Global TBM hub because the Himalayas alone can keep all the worlds TBM's put together busy for a 100 yrs.
I was thinking Bombay, Calcutta, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad but not Delhi have large water bodies and soft mud which makes it easy to not only bore but re-deploy the idle TBM's. Hyderabad and Delhi have large rock formations and rocky soil re: the Aravalli and rocks in Hyderabad re: metro works. Also, youtube has this video re: India's TBM's.
A Documentary
Off topic, Bangalore and Hyderabad are scheduled to end up with 200 and 100 sq. ft. of all kinds of office space, the majority of which would be new, Global, Grade A type IT Parks and SEZ's by 2020.
So, Banglore and Hyderabad will have space for 10 and 5 million sq. ft. of Global IT/BPO space by 2020. That's 10 and 5 million jobs in Bangalore and Hyderabad in the white collar job space alone. These two are also heavy into manufacturing.
Note the total population of Bangalore and Hyderabad is 10 million and 8 million total respectively - including kids, the aged the sick and the disabled.
Chennai, Pune, Kochi are adding IT & BPO space like no tomorrow also.
The above excludes office spaces in
- Secunderabad, Ameerpet, Panjagutta and Aabids
Re: Indo - Pak conflict :
Hehe ... Pakistanis, I have heard them say that 1 Pak Faujji can do 10 Indo.
Proud Sikh brothers say 1-Se-Savva-Lakh ...
- 1 Poon-jabi Priyanka Chopra can level more then the above Poon-jabi pfffFaujj re: above vid. Chk. Plud next Poon-jabi World Beauty Queen Dr. (tobe) Manushi Chillar is apro Priyanka ki BAAP !
Last word. Present day India is bequeathing $ US 1.28 Trillion in wealth to India via bank accounts, property and other assets like Gold in the form of jewelry, diamonds, livestock, canals, infrastructure etc.