1/5: The Palava flyover in Mumbai had to be shut for traffic barely seven days after its inauguration on 4 July. It had taken seven years to be ready. Bulldozers and JCBs are now back at work, tearing up this newly built road and relaying it with fresh asphalt.
2/5: It’s part of a long list of great Indian infrastructure debacles. Bridges are being built with sharp right-angle turns, many are falling, and highways are cutting through people’s balconies. India is having a civil engineering crisis, unable to keep up with its ambitions.
3/5: Currently, nearly 580 highway projects worth Rs 4 lakh crore reportedly face delays, mostly facing land acquisition issues. And fingers invariably point at India’s civil engineers, raising questions about their abilities.
4/5: These engineers, who call themselves nation-builders, work in a field riddled with corruption, exhausting work hours, poor pay, and minimal opportunities for career growth. Several engineers ThePrint spoke to described civil as the most exploitative branch of engineering.
5/5: For more, read #ThePrintGroundReport by Shubhangi Misra @shubhangi_misra https://theprint.in/ground-rep...
@ThePrintIndia The thread for obvious reasons shys from highlighting organised corupption in the Indian govt bureaucracy crony capitalism.
@ThePrintIndia It’s not Indian civil engineering that’s in crisis, it’s Indian corruption that’s flying high. 40-70% of a projects budget is meted out to corrupt politicians, IAS officers, local officials. Don’t be so shy Sekhar!
@ThePrintIndia shame! Brazen loot of public money. Construction contractors and sanctioning officers must face the consequences.
@ThePrintIndia It has become fashionable to blame Engineers and Babus. Once upon a time we held govts, ministers and politicians accountable, ran campaigns, held rallies, demonstrated on streets and ran media stories!
@ThePrintIndia Govt engineers are corrupt in clearing bills. Private contractors don't need talented high paid civil engineers. Obviously flyovers will fall, commission will rise
@ThePrintIndia Engineers will be fined 5000/- world back to normal 😏
@ThePrintIndia Work hours, poor pay, career growth does not mean anything to these engineers. They only work for corruption money. No sympathy with them.
I am deliberately doing videos on Indian roads. One primary reason: Highlight the contractors who have done a top job. Be it Recondo in Pune, Road Builders Malaysia in Kerala, Roman Tarmat in Navi Mumbai If we want good roads - we must know and celebrate the good contractors
The deeper you go into the semiconductor supply chain, the less believable it becomes. > TSMC, a company on a small island, produces over 90% of the world’s most advanced chips > TSMC relies on dutch company ASML for EUV lithography machines > ASML depends on German Company
Hi @SkyNews if female journalists in Delhi can attend a press conference inside the Afghanistan embassy with the Afghanistan foreign minister not in hijabs, why do you have to make your female western reporters always wear hijabs whenever they do interviews with the Afghan govt -
Malaysian contractor who committed suicide after building a good road in Kerala in 2006 reportedly named an IAS officer along with several others in his suicide note. The officer was transferred then. That officer is our Chief Election Commissioner now. This is our system.