Three big-ticket railway projects, whose combined cost is more than Rs 5,000 crore, have hit a logjam as those from whom Indian Railways had acquired land for these projects are now demanding railway jobs
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will soon induct more trains.
KOCHI: The district administration
The paper examines the basic reasons and feasible remedies for organisational weakness in India's public transport systems and the possible contribution of ownership, industry and management structure, leadership, social norms, and institutional incentives to alleviating the weaknesses. The arguments are illustrated with reference to the public rail and air services and help to understand why some public sector transport undertakings have performed better than others. The most effective changes are those that create incentives, broadly defined, for individuals to improve productivity.
The lifeline of any city, public transport is a critical component of sustainability When asked, city administrators overwhelmingly cite transport as the most urgent infrastructure investment to enhance
The Supreme Court today asked the Jaipur Metro Development Authority to seek permission from the Ministry of Environment and Forests for carrying out sand mining from river bed for its metro rail project. A special forest bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and C K Prasad said the MoEF shall consider within 10 days any application moved by the metro corporation for excavating sand from the river bed. The apex court passed the direction after Attorney General G E Vahanvati told the bench that the project development had been adversely affected after the Rajasthan High Court recently restrained any type of mining activities from Banas river.
This report discusses the losses to the economy due to poor logistics infrastructure, which will substantially increase under current trajectory of infrastructure development, and recommends a new, balanced modal approach for India's logistics infrastructure development.
This study evaluates rail transit benefits based on a comprehensive analysis of transportation system performance in major U.S. cities.
S. Vydhinathan CHENNAI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) of the Union government approved the Chennai Metro Rail Project at its meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday. The long-awaited project aims at providing Chennai with a fast, reliable, convenient, efficient, modern and affordable mode of public transport, which could offer a lasting solution to growing transport needs.
The Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Mr. Prakash Javadekar said that Government’s initiatives, efforts, and action plans to pursue the clean and renewable energy path had put India
Project estimated to cost Rs 12,000 cr. Mumbai, May 1 The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is planning a 100-km network of monorail in the Mumbai metropolitan area in next seven years. The project is likely to cost about Rs 12,000 crore.
Pakistan Railway (PR), an important mode of transportation in the farthest corners of the country, has fallen victim to the ill planning and apathy of the concerned circles. Bad infrastructure, dilapidated carriages, lack of facilities at railway stations and increasing fares have forced the passengers to switch over to other means of journey.
JUST how neglected the Bangladesh Railway (BR) has been since the country's independence is driven home by some eye-opening statistics cited at a roundtable recently. Not only has it lost over 40 percent of its land resource to illegal occupation, the size of its inventory with which it had originally begun in 1971 has also shrunk terribly over time.
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion,
Carbon dioxide emissions from freight could be cut by 40% or more if combined road-rail transport of freight in Europe was doubled within ten years. This is the result of a study by industry lobby
Mumbai The Oshiwara Railway Station project received a major setback recently with the World Bank withdrawing its funding as the project was delayed. Sources said it was because of the non-completion of two Road Over Bridges (ROB) and the non-closure of the Ram Mandir level crossing. Without the closure of the crossing, construction of the station building and platforms is not possible.
TIRUNELVELI: The Indian Railways, which is actively exploring the possibilities of tapping non-conventional energy sources across the country to meet a portion of its ever-growing energy needs and executing a couple of projects in this direction at vantage points, will generate 50 MW electricity from solar energy by installing the units at Nagpur in near future, Member / Electrical, Ministry of Ra
Mumbaikars have to wait longer to take a Monorail ride in the city. Officials of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), which is implementing the project, said it was likely that
In face to face, an election special programme by sister publication Navshakti, we spoke to local residents regarding the issues in the ward as well as what promises the contestants have to make. Ward
For city dwellers hassled by traffic and travelling woes, this may come as good news. Delhi Transport Corporation plans to introduce 200 air-conditioned buses on feeder routes to Metro Rail stations
