India Developing, but still a long way to go

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Not related to metropolitan cities....

That yellow-blue building is the new bus station of a tier IV town in Kerala

@nair @kurup

 

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Kalyanart, Jaipur

Salarpuria Sattva, Bangalore

Magnum, Banglore

Techopolis Banglore

Waverock IT Office, Hyderabad

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Tote, Mumbai

Gigaplex, Airoli; Mumbai MMR

Supremus Bombay

The Address, Mumbai

Palm Beach Residency, Bombay MMR

Imperial Towers, Bombay

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Delhi NCR's Noida's North Eye

 

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Some photographs from NHAI annual report

^^^Emergency Call Boxes

 

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Not related to metropolitan cities....

That yellow-blue building is the new bus station of a tier IV town in Kerala

@nair @kurup

You lie Sir. Kerala itself is one big city and what you call as towns as just colonies

 

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You lie Sir. Kerala itself is one big city

Yup,May be that's why central government has allowed Kerala to use buses supplied in JNNURM scheme on mofussil routes... these are now from little towns to villages.

Volvo Low Entry buses are running between small towns

 

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Gurgaon

 

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Mumbai-World One ( 117floor ) & World Crest ( 57floor )

cc:Muneesh Sud

 

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Noida expressway

 

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Upcoming Noida-Greater Noida Metro (NMRC)

Bangalore

cc : Ashwin R kyscrapercity

Lucknow metro plans airport station

Central government to fund dredging cost to up draft to 20 meters

It can be noted that most of the major ports in the country spend hundreds of crores for dredging due to high soil erosion annually to maintain the draft while increasing the channel depth involves capital dredging that is capital intensive, which the ministry is planning to fund.

As part of its focus on developing the maritime infrastructure, the government will increase the draft or channel depth at all the major ports to 20 meters for revenue-maximisation, Union shipping minister Nitin Gadkari has said.

"The draft is very important for a port. We have decided to take the draft of all the ports to 18 meters and from there up to 20 meters," Gadkari said here at an event over the weekend.

The minister said there is a sizeable increase in revenue if the draft is increased, saying if the draft goes down to 18 meters from 20, the per tonne revenue goes down by up to US $30.

It can be noted that most of the major ports in the country spend hundreds of crores for dredging due to high soil erosion annually to maintain the draft while increasing the channel depth involves capital dredging that is capital intensive, which the ministry is planning to fund.

The draft of the nation's largest port JNPT is around 16 meters currently and if this goes up to 20 meters, it can allow large ships to berth at its terminals which it is unable to do.

There are 12 major ports in the public sector in the country including the JNPT, Mumbai, Kandla, Kochi, Chennai, Kolkata, Vishakapattanam and Mangalore among others.

Stating that the "entire economics" of a project changes if the draft is deeper, Gadkari said the ministry will be funding all the ports to get the draft up to 20 meters.

The financial implications of such a move are not immediately known, though.

Gadkari said his ministry has initiated a project of increasing the draft at the Mormugoa Port as a PPP.

Gadkari over the weekend had said with port unions opposing corporatisation of ports, the ministry said attempts are being made to find alternatives for upgrading the ports and their services, beyond bringing them under the purview of the Companies Act as announced in the Budget.

He had said his ministry was talking to Finance Ministry on the alternatives, but did not elaborate on what those alternatives might be.

In the Budget, Jaitley had announced the government intention to corporatise ports, saying, "ports need to attract investments as well as leverage the huge land resource lying unused with them and to enable us to do so ports

in the public sector will be encouraged to corporatise and become companies under the Company's Act."

 

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Delhi

 

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i heard that Andhra Pradesh CM laid foundation stone for Andhra pradesh new capital.
can anyone give me guidelines about it, master plan and structure of the cpital.

 

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Ryuzaki, those Delhi pic.'s are gorgeous. The 1'st one is incredible in it's framing and he BMW is a bonus.
Yoga on Parliament Hill in Ottawa:

(c) http://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?...=//instagram.com/p/aL4SHxJGLf/media&width=810

 

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i heard that Andhra Pradesh CM laid foundation stone for Andhra pradesh new capital.
can anyone give me guidelines about it, master plan and structure of the cpital.

Amravati?
I dont think details have been released but Singapore planning authority has been asked to come up with a detailed plan