VINAYAK DESHPANDE writes about resources that can be leveraged to provide a fillip to project execution capabilities.
The government intends to spend about $1.3 trillion on building modern infrastructure across India. This infrastructure spend and the subsequent construction activity has the potential to once again spur economic growth nationwide along with providing a fillip to nation-building activities.
It will also provide a fillip to growth across the infrastructure sector – the thousands of big and small vendors thereby ensuring enhanced demand and consumption; this will spur growth nationwide.
Key to growth
Growth is important not merely for the company, its stakeholders and employees, but also to justify and ensure any entity’s very existence. Our unsurpassed reputation has ensured that Tata Projects’ turnover grew from about `34.44 billion in FY2015 to around Rs.132 billion this fiscal.
This phenomenal growth, wherein our order book currently stands at about `500 billion, can be attributed to our flawless project execution record or reputation.
Our mantra towards ensuring growth can be defined by two simple but important words – ‘Simplify. Create’. We successfully face execution hurdles nearly every day to deliver quality projects on schedule. These project execution challenges or hurdles need to be overcome so that it does not affect our corporate reputation. One must remember that our unmatched reputation is one of the reasons for our phenomenal growth over the years.
This enviable reputation has been built over the years by investing time, effort and resources into finding the right manpower, machines, technologies, processes and other required assets. When we leverage all these resources after in-depth planning and putting in place proper processes, suchas those related to supply chain management, it provides a fillip to our project execution capabilities.
Success stories
During execution of our recently completed Lucknow Underground Metro Line, for example, we faced numerous challenges, since the alignment passed through thickly inhabitedareas such as Hussainganj, Sachivalaya and Hazratganj, which also included many heritage structures. In addition, the alignment included a 90o sharp bend between Sachivalaya and Hazratganj Station. Furthermore, construction of tunnel below Haider Nallah had to be executed with a clearance of merely 970 mm.
At Lucknow, we simplified all these challenges through controlled movement of TBMs. In addition, our teams carried out hourly monitoring, propping of existing settlements and embankment protection measures that allowed smooth passage of TBM. The results are today for the entire world to see – we created a world-class underground metro line in Lucknow.
Another example pertains to the Dravyavati River or Amanishah Nallah in Jaipur – this 4