Roads in cities and in the rest of the country are inadequate as one in three rural people lacks access to an all-weather road and only one in five national highways is a four-lane one, according to the data compiled by the World Bank. Here, we look at a select few to see what they plan to do next year as smoothcommutes to work and a liveable home remain distant dreams for the country’smillions.21 crore (2011 census).98 croreProperty tax revenue: `1,800 croreEmployees: 7,000 Number of zones: 8Roads: 19,000Length of roads: 11,500 kmArterial and sub-arterial roads: 3,800 kmRoads identified for widening: 216Proposed signal-free corridors: 12Road works, maintenance estimate: Rs 1,200 croreMoney spent for pothole filling: Rs 300 croreMoney needed for resurfacing of roads in city: Rs3,000 croreProposed metal bridge: 1Road maintenance period: 3 years of schools in Delhi Pre-primary & primary 2,806Middle 933Secondary 385Senior Secondary 1,674Total 5,798Enrollment in lakhPre-primary & Primary 20.As the Chennai deluge this year highlighted, abnormal rainfall or heat waves leave our cities struggling to cope.10 kmCost: Rs 4,259. 

The metropolis has failed to deliver basic amenities and newer areas have had no water supply schemes, no sewage disposal mechanisms and are built on water bodies.India’s infrastructure needs are massive.jpg Our cities, some older than colonial era, are facing a collapse. The exponential growth has brought with it the modern problems of unplanned growth: Dense traffic crawling on inadequate roads and civic facilities stretched to the limit. Delhi’s infrastructure has grown leaps and bounds, thereby changing the demographics of the entire city, but residents still struggle to cope.36 lakh stay in slums Homeless households: 15,274 57% households live in one roomAverage cost of a 269 sq.3 million — it’s one of the most populated cities on the planet.16 Secondary 6.53 croresCompletion: 2018Noapara Airport: 6.ChennaiBudget 2015-16: Rs 8,245.13.

Three new ITIs will come up in Ranhola, Chhatarpur and Bakkarwala.Work started in 2012 and 62% have been completed.52 Senior Secondary 5. The city’s outskirts are now dotted with skyscrapers, IT parks, residential and commercial complexes and flyovers.DelhiThe capital is still struggling to cope with its massive population and is spectacularly failing to provide basic amenities — water, power and sanitation. With an average annual income of Rs 7.02 croresCompletion: 2020New Garia-Airport Metro: 29. A slew of big-ticket infrastructure projects in transport and logistics have helped it shake off that "sleepy little port town image”. wConstruction of the vessels progressing at Cochin Shipyard. Most of these houses will be in Mumbai city. Nagar: 12 km First phase from Nagole to Mettuguda delayed.Mumbai-based Lodha Developers has sold a triplex apartment at its super-luxury premises on Altamount Road, in South Mumbai for Rs 150 crore in the month of November. 

The deal makes for among the largest transacted in recent times. But it has witnessed growth in terms of areas, connectivity and population because of cheap labour, quick transportation and a largely affordable healthcare system. The city has also been famous aluminum Telescopic ladder manufacturers struggling with its image, given the lack of security for women.Maharashtra plans to construct 3 lakh affordable homes in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). w The BJP government’s plan to construct houses will be implemented between April 2016 and March 2017.Total cost: Rs 14,132 crores.Development was earlier confined to certain core areas, which started expanding phenomenally. KolkataWith its ancient, basic civic infrastructure, the city is still struggling..62 Total 44.5 croresCompletion: 2020Noapara-Dakshineswar: 6.83 croresCompletion: 2019First Metro rail project in India that will be constructed under a riverHyderabadTotal length: 72 kilometersDeadline: 2016-17Completion of all three phases andstarting the complete services by 2017.Entire project to be completed by June 2017Two stretches completed are:Nagole to Mettuguda: 8 kmMiyapur to S. Once the "Garden City,” it’s now one of the most polluted — gridlocked at any hour.83 Middle 11. Total project cost — Rs 7 crBengaluruArea under Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike: 841 kmBudget 2015-16: `6728.. He will take 27 years to pay for a unit costing Rs 2 crore.ChennaiOver four million residents of Chennai, which was once a flourishing port city, are literally struggling to stay afloat. given the abysmal state of our sewage systems and public health. DelhiEducationNo. In the aftermath of the deluge, will be hard work for the "cultural capital” of the country to revive itself and recover some of that past glory.HyderabadHyderabad’s evolution as a modern city can be traced back to that massive IT revolution in the late 1990s. It plans to recruit 20,000 regular teachers and construct 236 new schools. MUMBAI.

And having this enormous population within a relatively tiny area of 604 sq km means Mumbaikars are forever getting in each other’s ways.KochiIt’s aspiring to become the first metropolis of the southernmost state of India. KochiWater transportKerala water transport department operates services to Vypeen, Fort Kochi, Kakkanad and has proposed high speed boat service along Ernakulam-Vaikom and Kottayam-Kumarakom routesRs 740 cr project funded by the German bank KFW78 high quality safe modern vessels to be procured at a cost of Rs 195 crore KMRL’s aqua division will be the nodal agency of the projectKochi Corporation to introduce two modern RO-RO vessels along Vypeen — Fort Kochi, the riskiest route. This gives rise to an obsession with space. And it doesn’t all have to do with the December deluge, which only battered an already crumbling infrastructure. Here, we look at a select few to see what they plan to do next year as smoothcommutes to work and a liveable home remain distant dreams for the country’smillions. Of course, it has become one of the world’s, not just India’s, great tech cities, but only withincampuses of the multi-nationals.Our cities, some older than colonial era, are facing a collapse.Driver-less train as communication-based train control System is being used.41 crore Tamil Nadu is the seventh most populous state with a population of 7. Expected to start in the first quarter of 2016. MumbaiWith a human count of 18. 83 new building are being constructed and land has been identified for 38 schools.Mumbai Housing Total household: 28 lakh 11.24 kmCost: Rs 184.54 kmCost: Rs 8100 croresCompletion: 2019Joka Esplanade Metro: 14. BengaluruFrom the city it was until the early 1990s, Bengaluru has come a long way — in the wrong direction, like any other major Indian city..In the last five years, city limits have been redrawn to include areas from neighbouring districts..And in has also become a better metropolis with improving infrastructure — from more drinking water to illumination on the streets, there has been an upward graph. 

Foundations have been laid on 53 km. of teachers Pre-primary & Primary29,708Middle 11,741Secondary 9,370Senior Secondary88,661Total 1,39,480Student-teacher ratio 32:1Higher Educations Institutes 11Deemed as universities 12Institutes of national importance 3Colleges for general education 81Professional colleges 100The Delhi government’s budget for education is `4,570 crore.21 kmCost: Rs2,619. ft. And a boom in high-rise apartments and commercial complexes fuelled mainly by remittance income from NRI Keralites has also helped in changing the profile of Kochi.R.Hospitals with medical college 44Multi super-specialty hospital 1District HQ hospitals 31Other hospital 239PHCs 1,750Health sub-centres 8,706Urban PHCs 134ESI hospitals 8Alternative medicine 4Women and child 7Dispensaries 1,375ESI 195KolkataMetroOnly running Metro line Noapara to Kavi Subhas Length: 28 kmStations: 24Under construction: 5 linesEast-West Metro: 16

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