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Nagpur Municipal Corporation has planned to construct low-cost homes under PMAY on Orange City Project

Jul 9,2019 / By / No Comment
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Nagpur Municipal Corporation has planned to construct low-cost homes under PMAY on Orange City Project

As the construction of Metro Mall at the Orange City Street has begun, the Nagpur civic body has decided to start the construction of a hospital near Khamla and residential homes between Jaitala T-point and Yashoda Nagar as a part of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) under Orange City Project.

City MP and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari in a meeting held last week directed the Nagpur Municipal Corporation to keep housing schemes under the central govt’s Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana to encourage home buying affordable for the Middle Income Group (MIG) and Economically Weaker Section (EWS).

The proposed hospital buildings will come up in two buildings, of which one building would be a multi-speciality hospital and another one include OPD, radiology, pathology centres, and medicines.

The Nagpur Municipal Corporation following MahaMetro has started construction works for Metro Mall adjacent to Jaiprakash Nagar Metro Station at Radisson Blu Square. The basement work has completed and concrete work will start soon.

Orange City Street is also known as London Street project is being developed by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra. The project includes 10 different expenses allocated for residential, commercial, IT Park, green zone, vegetable market, and medical zone. The remaining zones in the project are cultural, retail market, recreational, parks, parking etc.

It is being developed on 5.50 km on both sides of Wardha road- Somalwada-Khamla-Bhamti-Parsodi-Takli-Jaitala T-Point road stretch. The project will span across 75.34 acres of land. The total built-up area under the project is 10,75,984.40 sq mt. It will spread over a total of 21 plots and comprise 60 residential and 13 commercial buildings at the cost of 5,700 crores which was planned in the year 2007. This project received a negative response on Build-Operate-Transfer (BoT) model. Now, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation has come forward and taken the execution work in a phased manner. The civic body will sell the properties and recover the cost.

The civic body has made special building bylaws for the project to make it feasible and affordable for the Middle Income Group and Economically Weaker Section.

As per Abhijit Bangar, Municipal Commissioner of Nagpur, they are planning to begin construction works on five shopping malls at Cotton Market, Sokta Bhavan, Sakkardara, Netaji Market, and Budhwar Bazar within 6-months time period. They will soon start the tender process for Sokta Bhavan, Sakkardara and Budhwar Bazaar Complex.

For making the Orange City Street Scheme a success, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has come up with many initiatives including floating floor space index (FSI), special building regulation and use of all buildings for various purposes.

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KTR opens underpass at Mindspace Junction: Major relief to techies

May 8,2018 / By / No Comment

GHMCRecently KT Rama Rao {Telangana Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) Minister} inaugurated Hyderabad’s Mind Space underpass which will provide major relief for several thousand techies who work in the area.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation said that the Mind Space underpass is the second project under the signal free traffic corridors, as part of the Strategic Road Development Plan (SRDP).

The underpass is built at an approximate cost of Rs 25.78 crore, the underpass is expected to smoothen the heavy traffic in the area as a good number of people travel through the road while commuting to and from their workplace.

An analysis conducted by the municipal body stated that around 14,400 vehicles passed the stretch every hour and the number of vehicles was expected to shoot up to 31,356 every hour by the year 2035.

The six-lane underpass is 365 meters long, while the closed box length is 83 meters. The total width of the underpass is 28.80 meters while it has a minimum vertical clearance of 5.5 meters.

GHMC in a press release said that “Apart from Mindspace Junction, three other multi-level separators are at Biodiversity Junction, Ayyappa Society and Rajiv Gandhi statue junction with all the components costing Rs 379 crore. Apart from this facility, the underpass at Chintalkunta Checkpost too has been finished and is ready to be open to the public.

GHMC officials said that they will focus on completing the flyover at Rajiv Gandhi statue junction in Kukatpally. Smoothing vehicles movement from Malaysian Township to JNTU second gate, the flyover will benefit in addressing the traffic griefs in the locality.

Next on the radar will be the two flyovers at Biodiversity junction. Like Punjagutta junction, two unidirectional flyovers are being constructed at the junction, which is the main locality connecting the IT and ITES companies, besides for reaching the Outer Ring Road.

The infrastructural developments are coming up after taking into consideration not just to ease the traffic congestion but also to put in place a long-term road infrastructure in this part of the city, which has given a new distinctiveness to Hyderabad.

The city remains to lead the chart among the best livable cities of the country and SRDP works will go a long way in adding new infrastructure and meeting the future requirements, said a GHMC senior official.

Though commuters will have to tolerate a little inconvenience during the construction stage, there will be an outstanding change in the traffic flow in these areas once all the structures are completed, he further added.

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Hennur flyover to be ready by December end

Dec 11,2017 / By / No Comment

Work on the Hennur flyover, which leads towards Geddalahalli in Bengaluru began in 2009, with the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) promising to open the flyover to the public by July 2010. The Hennur flyover, which is not even a kilometer long, is still showing no signs being anywhere close to completion. But recently, the Bengaluru Development Minister KJ George, Mayor R Sampath Raj, and officials from the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) visited Hennur flyover to scrutinize the work in progress.

KJ George said it was not possible to complete the work by the projected time due to land acquisition issues. Now, things are in place. The flyover work will be finished by end of December.

Work on the flyover was taken up eight years ago by BDA, but it was hindered midway in 2012. However, in 2016, Minister KJ George at an event publicized that the flyover work would be completed by November 2016, but the work was stopped by the authority due to many issues.

One of the reasons causing a delay in the completion of the flyover has been problems with land acquisition, mainly after the new Land Acquisition Act came into effect in 2013.

However, reports say that the shifting of underground pipes by the Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board has also delayed the work on the flyover.

The 920-meter-long flyover which was supposed to be completed within 18 months of commencement in 2009, but it never happened. The revised project cost of the flyover went up to Rs 55 crore in 2016, but still, no progress was seen.

The completion of the Hennur flyover is essential for the nearby areas. The flyover is estimated to reduce travel time to and from Kempegowda International Airport for residents of east and southeast Bengaluru.

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Bengaluru city that is struggling to get skywalks constructed, will any of these projects see the light of the day

Dec 6,2017 / By / No Comment

Consider three mega infrastructure projects, Bengaluru Development Minister, Mr. K.J. George has been pushing for: a) determined network of elevated corridors of over 100 km in the city at an assessed cost of ₹25,000 crore.
b) Proposal to build four tunnels in the city adding up to a length of 17.65 km at an expected cost of over ₹10,000 crore.
c) Pod taxis on six stretches in the city at a cost of over ₹1,700 crore.

With the city government aggressively pushing these mega projects to smoothen the traffic, the question on the decision-making process and the lack of funding model have again come to the front.

There was no public meeting held before choosing the projects. The cash-strapped government companies, reluctant to spend a rupee on them, want to execute the projects through the Build Own Operate and Transfer (BOOT) model under public-private partnership (PPP). However, till date, none of the projects has received any funding from interested parties.

Though the pod taxis and the tunnels are comparatively new, the city authorities have been pitching the network of elevated corridors at multiple routes for two years now, including at Invest Karnataka 2016, but failed to receive any interested bidders.

Pod taxis
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has called for an Expression of Interest (EoI) for pod taxis on six stretches totaling to 35.5 km at an approximate cost of over ₹1,700 crore. BBMP Commissioner, N. Manjunath Prasad, said while a private firm had come forward to do a small pilot project as proof of concept; the project was yet to receive bidders.

Skywalks in the city
However, the city authorities have not succeeded in attracting private investment for infrastructure projects. For example, the BBMP has circulated multiple tenders to build over 100 skywalks in the city with no success. In the recent State budget, the State government has released a gap funding of Rs 80 crore.

PPP projects
V. Ravichandar, member, BBMP Restructuring Committee, said that nowhere in the country had PPP projects been doing well in the city center, except the Worli Sea Link in Mumbai. He also pointed out that the successes have mainly been in the highways sector.

Urbanist Ashwin Mahesh had a different take on the issue. He disagreed that the problem was in the choice of projects. None of the projects for which the government was seeking private investments were conceptualized following the classification of a gap in the infrastructure and a successive study on the possible result, he pointed out. Like the steel flyover, megaprojects are being moved from drawing boards to implementation without any discussion, he said.

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