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Time of India
8 hours ago
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- Time of India
Telangana developers body bats for suburban master plan of Hyderabad; calls for balanced growth & equal infrastructure
Telangana Developers Association (TDA) has urged the Telangana government to develop a suburban master plan for Hyderabad, ensuring balanced expansion across the city's four sides HYDERABAD: The Telangana Developers Association (TDA) has suggested that Hyderabad should have a suburban master plan to facilitate balanced expansion on all four sides of the city. The TDA suggestion was in light of the Telangana govt starting the exercise to prepare the master plan for Hyderabad metropolitan region 2050 a few months ago. In a letter to chief minister A Revanth Reddy, TDA president GV Rao and secretary Srinivas Goud said that to ensure sustainable growth, the carrying capacity of future satellite cities should be meticulously calculated based on the ideal population density for each area, with infrastructure development planned accordingly to support long-term stability and scalability. 'High density will result in harsh conditions as we are experiencing in Bengaluru and Delhi. All four corners of the city should have civil infrastructure of the same level with health, education and employment-generating corridors such as IT,' Rao said. TDA president said that as the city and suburban areas' population is growing by three lakh every year, the govt has to plan water for such a huge future population. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Investire è più facile che mai BG SAXO Scopri di più Undo 'The govt has to audit present supply capacity, drinking and industrial water requirements in the future by appointing expert consultancy or any university on water requirements of the city for the next 50 years,' he said. They also said that the Regional Ring Road (RRR), Future City and Metro Rail expansion would be a game changer . RRR has great potential to increase Hyderabad's economic activity , they said.
India Gazette
29-05-2025
- Business
- India Gazette
Kerala: NHAI terminates site engineer after collapse of RE wall, embankment at NH-66
Mallapuram (Kerala) [India], May 29 (ANI): The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has suspended the project engineer and terminated its site engineer who are part of the NH-66 project in Kerala, following an investigation into the collapse of a part of the embankment at the national highway, with the contractor being tasked to construct the viaduct at the highway at their own cost. A port of the embankment and RE Wall was reported on Ramanattukara-Valanchery Section of NH-66 in Kerala on May 19, 2025, when the project was nearing completion, read a statement from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on May 22. While no deaths occurred due to the collapse of the embankment, multiple cars were stuck at the section. On May 19, a team of four experts was constituted to study the reasons for failed Kooriyad RE wall including testing under the supervision of a Retired IIT-Delhi Professor GV Rao. The preliminary assessment by the team suggested that the failure is due to inability of the foundation soils to support the high embankment loads. On May 24, an additional expert committee was constituted, comprising of a retired senior Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) scientist, an Associate Professor from IIT-Palakkad and the Deputy Director General from the Geological Survey of India (GSI). The committee is tasked with assessing other potential location of reinforced soil (RS) walls and slope protection works in 17 ongoing projects on NH-66 in Kerala. NHAI also levied a monetary penalty of Rs 20 lakh on Thursday against the Design Consultant, Strata Geosystems, and debarred them for one year. The Highway Authority has also served a show cause notice to Sri Infotech, which was the safety consultant of the project, while also issuing a penalty of Rs 20 lakh. On May 21, NHAI had suspended the Concessionaire, KNR Constructions Ltd from participating in ongoing/future bidding. Project consultant/independent engineer, Highway Engineering Consultant has also been disallowed from participating in future and ongoing bids. The Project Manager of Concessionaire and Team Leader of Consultant have also been suspended from their duties, according to the ministry. The Concessionaire is also required to clear the debris from the RE wall collapse and rectify the damage by constructing a new flyover at their cost, with the cost being approximately Rs 80 crore. (ANI)
