As reported, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate two major national highways, which spread to a total length of 34 km, and an inland waterways project in Varanasi
Need for innovative methods and quality standards to build healthy bridges
10 new corridors of 6,000 km is in plans for high-speed rail projects.
The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has reportedly approved the construction of a six-lane Ganga Expressway. Worth Rs 360 billion, the expressway is expected to connect Meerut in western Uttar Pradesh to Prayagraj in the east.
At at an estimated cost of $530 mn, the project is partly funded by the Indian Government and the World Bank. The project is expected to be completed within six years.
For the Varanasi Smart City project, Rudrabhishek Enterprises (REPL), along with consortium partners, was recently appointed as project management consultants.
Japan has decided to be associated with the development of Chennai, Ahmedabad and Varanasi as smart cities. This has been conveyed by Japan’s Ambassador Kenji Hiramatsu to the Indian Minister of Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu.
Regarded as the spiritual capital of India, Varanasi is known for its incredible number of 84 ghats or embankments, making tourism one of the city´s most important industries.
Across India, this story is all too familiar - and tragic. A building declared unsafe, yet occupied, ultimately succumbing to the harsh weather and collapsing, leading to injury and death.
The Smart City plan of Varanasi has identified traffic congestion and encroachment menace in the holy town as major problems. The city has cited an Ernst & Young study on a ´City Mobility Plan´ to say that 50 per cent of the carriageway capacity in the heart of Varanasi is occupied by irregular parking as no proper parking facilities exist.
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