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New Delhi metro showcases Indian infrastructure
2007/4/14
By Alistair Scrutton NEW DELHI, Reuters

Meters below the rickshaws, hawkers and crowds of Delhi, a parallel world of air conditioned calm, marble-lined floors and punctual trains showcases how India's crucial infrastructure can get built.
Modern trains quietly arrive at stations to calm announcers. No tea or food sellers ply the platform. Elevators feature sari meshes to stop the flowing robes from getting caught in the gap, all in sharp contrast to India's mostly chaotic railway stations.

Worries over India's infrastructure shortcomings have reached a crescendo in the last months as signs of an overheating economy and supply bottlenecks from unfinished highways to packed ports have many thinking an economic boom could be short lived.

But Delhi's metro, whose first central phase was officially finished a few months ago, has shown what the public sector can achieve.

While not the only state project that has worked in India, the fact such a high profile project was completed on time and within budget has made it a national showcase, earning visits from business students as far away as Harvard to study its success.

"The Delhi metro is a stunning example of how a government project can be done properly," Delhi Metro Rail Corporation managing director Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, a 74-year-old, yoga-practicing civil engineer, told Reuters.

"It's been a good example for the politicians of what the professionals can do if they are given a free hand."

The prestige of a metro in the capital led the government to appoint a manager with an impressive record with full powers to hire people, decide on tenders and control funds -- a feat rarely repeated in India where graft and red tape slow many projects.

Sreedharan's success in this city of 14 million people has led authorities to look at metros across India, including the technology hubs of Bangalore and Hyderabad.

Some 600,000 commuters already use the metro daily, cutting road traffic and helping reduce Delhi's pollution by a third.

"The metro has cut my travel time by almost 75 percent. Earlier I travelled from home by bus, which cost me 80 rupees ($2). Now I pay only 14 rupees (US$ 0.30)," said Arpana, a commuter, as she hurried for a train.
 
150 billion in 5 years on Infrastructure, friggin amazing. But we need it, I am sure that will only make it respectful. a Finishing a project in 5 years is unheard off in india...lol
 
Old news adux, and it was big news too. Chidambaram had said India needs $150 Bil in the next 5 years.
 
India is spending $1 trillion in the coming 5 years....by 2016 the infrastructure in the country will have vastly improved.
 
newbies! How did you find a 4 year old BTW?
 
Congrats!

but frankly I'm astonished, I never thought that India has just begun to build metro!

I was also astonished @ morning when i turned the The Economic Times newspaper i seen a combined add of Ministry of defence and BEML in which BEML elaborating that we have developed the Metro Rail coaches in collaboration with rotem of south Korea and Mitsubhishi of Japan.A grat news for me and all Indians.
 
Good news for India congrats :) guys but i can't see the video(s) can someone plzz post a video thx.
 
ah i am sorry..was browsing the namma metro thread and this came up in the related section.should have checked
 
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