| | MAY 20234From building highways that can land giant aircraft to developing nearly 50 KM of highway per day, road construction in India continues to make headlines. Alongside the department head Nitin Gadkari, we can thank several insightful initiatives, including PM Gati Shakti, the national master plan for multi-modal connectivity to the fast-tracking metro & smart city development. Gati Shakti is widely regarded as a panacea to solve the lack of coordination between different Departments, which caused a myriad of hindrances in infrastructure development. For example, once a road was constructed, other agencies dug up the constructed road again for activities like laying underground cables, gas pipelines, etc. This not only caused great inconvenience but was also a wasteful expenditure. The government had put efforts in place to increase coordination and avoid silos so that all cables, pipelines, etc., could be laid simultaneously. On the other hand, smart cities should also mean better connectivity and, in turn, smarter road infrastructure to and from the city. Gadkari is concocting a silent revolution in Road development. According to the data divulged by the NHAI, the annual average construction of national highways has recorded an 83 percent spike compared to the pace of highway construction before Gadkari's time. Construction of national highways reached its highest in February, when the Centre developed 42.03 kilometers of highways per day, according to Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) data. This is over 7 percent less than the same period last year. So what changed? The answer to this question lies in the government's tech-savvy mindset that triggered a complete digital transformation of infrastructure projects. The technology-advantage in engineering has also helped significantly. Sujith VasudevanManaging Editoreditor@ceoinsightsindia.comA Road to Progress EditorialVol 04 · Issue 5 - 1 · MAY, 2023 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Sujith Vasudevan Senior Designer Girisha M Asokan S. V. Hari Shankar P ANoidaRohit Raghubanshi Garima Anandadvertise@ceoinsightsindia.comEditorial queries editor@ceoinsightsindia.comAdvertising ManagersAbhay Katiyar To subscribeVisit https://www.ceoinsightsindia.com/subscribe/ or send emailto subscription@ceoinsightsindia.comMagazine Price is Rs. 150 per issuePublisher Alok ChaturvediPrinted and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of Info Connect Web Technolo-gies India Pvt. Ltd., and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017.Copyright © 2023 Info Connect Web Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.VP - Sales & Marketing Amrit SinghCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal Editorial Heena Kousar Keerthana Kantharaj Roopalatha H Hima P. M.
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