The title of this post may look a bit fragmented at first instance, but every word has a very strong correlation with the other. When the democratic freedom is taken for granted in any nation along with the very poor political ambitions, not only the quality of health of citizens get deteriorated but also the health of the national infrastructure is affected by reduction in life of the infrastructure.
The recent news of the at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/soutikbiswas/2010/05/calcutta_the_time_is_now.html
attracted almost 80 comments just 9 days. This shows that there is good amount of unrest among people. This topic came up with the study of just one bridge (Public Asset- PA), and there are millions of similar public assets which are suffering from the same 'spit' problems. The problem is treated in a very proactive manner in some government institutions by painting the spit zone in red colour.
So where does the solution lie?
The solution lies not even with the political leaders as they are helpless because of their very own needs of such habits and the consequences of such businesses as stated in:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Gutkha-ban-comes-into-force-in-state/articleshow/17702757.cms
There should be no ban on taking any tobacco product in the mouth, but should be for taking out something out of it, should be either regulated or facilitated. To regulate there can be fines but to facilitate the 'spit management' will be very costly to design the infrastructure keeping in mind the additional actions such as 'spit'. Also its not possible to provide 'spit drains' all over the city when we cannot even afford to provide proper storm water drains. Proposing an additional 'Spit Management - Tax' will make people and the vote boxes unhappy.
Hence the solution lies in either in fines or in tax. As our planning commission has not solved the problem yet and also not very hopeful to do that as per the efficiency ratings of Indian bureaucracy (India - 9.41; 1-best: 10-worst),
http://www.ptinews.com/news/686981_Indian-bureaucracy-most-inefficient-in-Asia--Survey
it may be a helpful decision for the central government to establish independent Infrastructure Planning Commission to decide on issues of Infrastructure.
Thank you
Need for the Course
The rapid economic growth of the country, in past decade, has put forth the urgent need of infrastructure development in order to sustain such a growth regime since India began to liberalize in 1991 almost all govt. policies tried to focus on rapid infrastructure development, which is regarded as one basic prerequisite for a better economic development trajectory for the country.
Various estimates suggests, that, India need to commit anywhere from U.S.$ 300-400 billion in next 5 to 7 years, if it has to sustain the demand created by rapid growth, which is roughly 12.5% of nations GDP per year. In order to create as well as to sustain such massive infrastructure development, the country needs a specialized and dedicated breed of human resources capital that is well trained in the emerging infrastructure spectrum.
The infrastructure spectrum, as it has emerged over the years, spends form very basic of services such as water, sanitation, roads, etc. to value added infrastructure such as airports. Ports, logistic hubs and their after leading to state-of- the-art infrastructure services which includes wireless communications, e-infrastructure, and optical fibre based networks.
About the Course
The programme has a broad category of subjects covering basic overview of national and international infrastructure development perspectives and policies, urban and rural infrastructure planning and design perspectives, highways, ports and logistics, industrial infrastructure, project finance and appraisal techniques, environmental infrastructure, infrastructure asset management, GIS application, bids process management and environmental and social management framework.
The programme also gives real life exposure through studio works, summer training and an independent research /thesis on a chosen subject area.
Established in 2009, the present programme in infrastructure engineering and management aims to combine the emerging aspects of modern technology along with planning, project development, finance and management of infrastructure.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
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