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Title: Country pays heavy price for infrastructure neglect'


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Corridors of Excellence S Viswanathan Editor
Publisher, Industrial Economist
A seminar by
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About Industrial Economist
  • Forty Years young
  • Focusing on business and economic issues of
    South
  • Initiative to expand awareness on economic issues
  • Several dignitaries have been part of this
    endeavour

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India has neglected infrastructure development
for many years
  • Power generation
  • Freight / transportation
  • Highways development
  • Let us look at a few of these

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Paying the price for being power-less
  • Less than 50 of targets set for power capacity
    additions achieved in Eighth, Ninth Tenth five
    year plans
  • Average additions made by Tamil Nadu over last 16
    years barely touched 100 MW per year
  • Proposed power cuts in 2008 may drastically
    retard growth

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Freight transportation industries suffer
stunted growth
  • In the Sixties, visionaries in shipping dreamt of
    carrying up to 50 of foreign trade in Indian
    ships
  • Against this, after 40 years, Indian ships carry
    just around a tenth of the import and export
    freight

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Highway development neglected for more than five
decades
  • Impressed by the Autobahn road network in
    Germany, US president Eisenhower initiated
    eight-lane road construction in early 1950s
  • India has taken 50 years to appreciate need for
    well networked highways

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Implementation delays cause chaos
  • Example the busy Kathiapara junction in
    Chennai. This junction leading south to the
    airport is possibly the busiest in the city
  • The grade separator at Kathipara, due in April
    2006, is still far from completion
  • Decision to cast heavy concrete blocks in situ,
    among major contributors to delay

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Connecting India is now a success story in
progress
  • Investments in infrastructure is jumping from
    12.5 million in the 1990s to an estimated 500
    billion in the Eleventh Plan Period that
    translates to a mind-boggling amount of Rs.45,000
    crore per year!

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Big investments are being made by Railways
  • The Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata dedicated
    freight corridors involve massive outlays
  • Prosperous industrial corridors are being planned
    along these routes
  • 185-km Metro rail aiding mass transit in NCR

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As a PR initiative, why cant oil and auto
companies be more involved?
  • Tamil Nadu has notoriety for largest number of
    road accident deaths
  • Three per day on city roads.
  • Close to 14,000 across the state in 2005)
  • TN accounts for a seventh of the all India figure
    of 100,000 deaths on roads
  • Auto makers and oil companies can campaign
    for road safety
  • Helmets for two wheeler riders
  • Seatbelts for four wheelers
  • Driver training
  • Traffic planning for cities
  • PR expertise can help in such initiatives

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The South needs to shout for more attention
  • Major development programmes are often
    Delhi-centric
  • Freight corridors, Metro, Gas Grid are all
    focused around NCR and in the North West
  • South is not in the radar of such massive
    infrastructure development

IE Seminar will focus on Chennai-Bengaluru
Industrial Corridor and the OMR IT Corridor
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A strong case for a Chennai-Bengaluru high-speed
rail industrial corridor
  • Think of reaching Bengaluru in 90 minutes flat
  • Reach either city from any point on the corridor
    in 60 minutes!
  • Such dedicated trains can ply Chennai-Hyderabad
    and Chennai-Cochin

PR professionals can be a vital link in
projecting such concepts!
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Remember
  • We can't solve problems by using the same kind
    of thinking we used when we created them- Albert
    Einstein

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S Viswanathan Editor Publisher
www.IndustrialEconomist.com viswanathan.ie_at_gmai
l.com
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