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September 30th, 2009
NEW DELHI - All roads in the national capital will be built up using international technology before the beginning of 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG), Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Rajkumar Chauhan said Tuesday.
“Special attention is being paid to the roads which are around the places where the games would be held,” Chauhan said, while inaugurating the work using “recycling and micro surfacing method” in south Delhi.
“A total of 242 km of Delhi roads are being built up with the new technique, which will cost around Rs.2 billion (Rs.200 crore),” he added. The work will be finished by June 2010.
In the recycling method, about 70 per cent of the available material in the road is used and only about 30 per cent material is added to fill the gaps that occur due to wear and tear and atmospheric action on the road over a period of time.
“It is purely an eco-friendly technique and consumes less material. The thickness raised is only 10 to 15 mm. Life of such treated roads is claimed to be 5 to 7 years,” Chauhan said, according to an official statement here.
In micro surfacing technique, cold bitumen emulsion is mixed with fine stone aggregates whose mix is then spread over minor cracks in the road surface.
“Life of the road by this method is increased to 2-3 years. In this technology, the thickness added to the existing surface is almost nil. The roads built by micro surfacing will be waterproof,” the statement cited the minister as saying.
September 29th, 2009
CHANDIGARH - Six people, including a woman, were killed Sunday when the car in which they were travelling slammed into a truck in Panipat district of Haryana, police said.
The car, being rashly driven, rammed into the stationary truck from the rear in Samalkha town of Panipat, about 130 km from here.
“Six of the eight occupants of the car were killed. Other two were seriously injured. We have shifted the injured to a civil hospital,” Samalkha Station House Officer Kaptan Singh told IANS.
“We would record the statements of the injured once their condition stabilises,” Singh said.
September 29th, 2009
NEW DELHI: At least 20 children were injured Tuesday when their school bus toppled after a colliding with a bus in the southern part of the Indian capital, police said.
The accident took place at around 07:45 a.m. local time near a traffic intersection of R.K. Puram in south New Delhi. The bus was carrying over 30 students of a local school, said police.
The injured children have been rushed to the AIIMS trauma center in New Delhi for treatment.
September 9th, 2009
Jammu: To spruce up the city, Jammu got the highest ever plan outlay to the tune of Rs 71.48 crore today for developing infrastructure projects. Chairing the meeting of the district development board, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah approved a Rs 71.48 crore plan, the highest ever so far, for developmental projects in the district.
Abdullah earmarked Rs 60 crore for the BC road flyover and ordered to start construction of a fourth bridge on river Tawi for which Rs 10 crore were sanctioned.
This will address the long pending demand of people of the Jammu, Abdullah said adding that it would also ease out the traffic problems in the city.
He also announced Rs 5 crore for developing roads of the district and Rs 2 crore for the development of Raghunath Bazaar as a heritage market.
September 9th, 2009
SRINAGAR (India) - AT LEAST 20 people were killed and 25 others injured in Indian-ruled Kashmir on Monday when an overcrowded bus skidded off a mountain road and plunged into a gorge, police said.
The accident occurred in northern Doda district, south of the summer capital Srinagar, along the main highway linking the Himalayan region with the rest of India.
‘Of the injured, nine are in a critical condition,’ a police spokesman said.
Bus accidents are common in the area because of a combination of bad roads, overcrowding and poor maintenance of vehicles.
In June, 26 people were killed in a similar accident in the same area.
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