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#7,943 ·
infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com

Road clear for NH projects under Vision 2047: Gadkari - ET Infra

Vision 2047: The minister said there were ample funds available for highway construction. The budgetary allocation for roads ministry for fiscal 2025-26 has been kept flat.
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$250billion worth of new approvals on the way. I hope most of these are proper access controlled greenfield expressways not the dumb brownfield upgrades they have been doing. We need about 70-80k fully access controlled expressways in the country.
 
#7,944 ·
ronjon2025 said:
infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com

Road clear for NH projects under Vision 2047: Gadkari - ET Infra

Vision 2047: The minister said there were ample funds available for highway construction. The budgetary allocation for roads ministry for fiscal 2025-26 has been kept flat.
infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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$250billion worth of new approvals on the way. I hope most of these are proper access controlled greenfield expressways not the dumb brownfield upgrades they have been doing. We need about 70-80k fully access controlled expressways in the country.
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If they do it like bharatmala would be so nice as it will open it to public discussion
 
#7,945 ·
Shuv said:
If they do it like bharatmala would be so nice as it will open it to public discussion
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True. I just hope they learnt from the execution bottlenecks they faced with bharatmala and will be much more efficient now. They should now have a good idea about getting clearances, financing asap and blacklisting the bad contractors that did shoddy work with the currently under construction expressways/highways.
 
#7,947 ·
PrasadK2k said:
What is the current NHAI per km cost for a concrete highway?

As per DPR MSRDC shaktipeeth highway cost is coming to 104CR per km. Wondering why so high....
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I've been thinking that too for some time...here is what i know

For vijayawada ring road it's 16k cr for 1í0 km which is 90 cr per km 6 lane...

For some part of 4 lane on kanpur bhopal economic corridor it is under 20 cr per km...

I don't know why such a big difference..

Maybe shaktipeeth and ring roads are CC whereas normal economic corridors are BCC
 
#7,948 ·
sgups said:
feels like a cash grab. A breakdown is unexpected and not always the driver's fault. However, if the driver refuses to get the car towed or moved to the shoulder then they should be fined.
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If he had a functional RTO, we wouldn't be allowing unfit vehicles on the road.
Fines should be awarded only if the breakdown was result of driver negligence such as running out of petrol, less than minimum tread on tires resulting in tire burst etc., may be I am expecting little too much from police who usually have next to no clue about traffic rules except for speeding.
 
#7,950 ·
raghu487 said:
If he had a functional RTO, we wouldn't be allowing unfit vehicles on the road.
Fines should be awarded only if the breakdown was result of driver negligence such as running out of petrol, less than minimum tread on tires resulting in tire burst etc., may be I am expecting little too much from police who usually have next to no clue about traffic rules except for speeding.
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You wont find those kind of bylaws anywhere. There are rules for unsafe operation of a car/truck but that is usually applied after catastrophic failure or during a random inspection point on commercial vehicles. No enforcement agency has the resources to check if the millions of vehicles are safe to operate or not.
 
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sgups said:
You wont find those kind of bylaws anywhere. There are rules for unsafe operation of a car/truck but that is usually applied after catastrophic failure or during a random inspection point on commercial vehicles. No enforcement agency has the resources to check if the millions of vehicles are safe to operate or not.
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Japan has SHAKEN. Every two years a vehicle has to clear SHAKEN at authorized service stations.
They check everything from oil leak from oil seals of engine and ger box, to brake pad and disc thickness to performance of the vehicle.
We must introduce such a test in India. Not make it mandatory, but vehicles having a OK from such a test will be allowed on Expressway. It should be input with the FASTTAG whereby by scanning the FASTTAG the system will take money from bank account and confirm if test done is OK.
 
#7,952 ·
RONGHOSH77 said:
Japan has SHAKEN. Every two years a vehicle has to clear SHAKEN at authorized service stations.
They check everything from oil leak from oil seals of engine and ger box, to brake pad and disc thickness to performance of the vehicle.
We must introduce such a test in India. Not make it mandatory, but vehicles having a OK from such a test will be allowed on Expressway. It should be input with the FASTTAG whereby by scanning the FASTTAG the system will take money from bank account and confirm if test done is OK.
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If you introduce such a thing in India then people will stop buying vehicles.

We can't even do the very basic stuff right which is to give licenses based on driver's test
 
#7,953 ·
Excellent news.
6 lane chitrakoot prayagraj varanasi NHAI road tender out on NHAI tender etender website
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And dont be in doubt this is by NHAI and not by UPEIDA which means .... You guessed it right... Chitrakoot prayagraj will have in 2 years from having nothing to a 4 lane expressway and a 6 lane NH...

@SSCwarrior @vijayv3705 @avishar what we discuss about maybe NHAI should collaborate with UPEIDA and MSRDC.... We are expecting both are sane entities and the only problem is that they aren't discussing with each other.... Which is not the case here.... Both are nuts
 
#7,957 ·
Shuv said:
Need for expressways. Now this is a branding disaster

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Or may be PLAN & develop a functional road "NETWORK" instead of using highways for local traffic as well. That entire area has extremely poor road network barring this sole highway. Every kind of traffic including short distance commuters as well as local shoppers are forced to use the highway due to pathetic planning of the remaining street network and non-development of erstwhile village roads.
 
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#7,960 ·
Shuv said:
You clearly haven't visited kolkata. The thing is bangalore is growing like crazy...
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I have been to Kolkatta multiple times. The city has definitely turned to shit now but its also much more poorer comparatively. Bangalore on the other hand is a top 10 startup hub in the world and is India's tech capital. It is incredible that the authorities over there dint plan for even half of this growth. Even the ring roads they are building now are reactionary than actual planning. Even tier 2 cities like Lucknow are building 8 lane fully access controlled outer ring roads anticipating for future growth. Hyderabad is building skyways everywhere and has had a fully access controlled 8 lane outer ring road fully functional for a decade now. They are already planning a regional ring road. I would expect a lot better from Bangalore considering it is the fastest growing city in the world, they have the capital to invest into urban planning and they should have seen this growth coming.
 
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