Hard and Soft Infrastructure

I came across this publication which defines Hard and Soft Infrastructure by Deepak Kumar who is an Associate consultant of ICFAI journal of Infrastructure.

He says" Infrastructure sector is divided into hard and soft infrastructure. The hard infrastructure includes roads and bridges, ports, airlines, railway, power,telecom while the soft infrastructure includes education, health, tourism,etc." It also lists out Initiatives of UPA Government- (2004-05) in the field of Infrastructure. This paper gives details about both hard and soft Infrastructure initiatives taken by the govenment.

I wonder how much of this is a true achievement as NHDP, NSEW coridoor are already in a fix cos of increasing cost of the projects and railway projects are also at halt as mentioned in my earlier post.

Bangaluru Airport In a mess

The new Bangalore airport is located some 40 kms away from the city in Devenhalli. The congested roads and the increasing traffic on the roads is making it the least preferred option for the people to travel. although the Airport had all world class facilities, capacity of handling 10 million passenger in a year. It has 50 ckeck in counters and there are no x-ray machines to screen the bags but the public is suffering because of the distance they have to cover on the road to catch a flight.

Passenger end up spending 3-4 hours travelling to and fro to the airport to catch a 1 hour flight. I wonder the land for the proposed airport was decided long back and it dint strike anybody's mind that distance could be a problem. More details are here.

Delhi Cabinet nod for storm-water drain project

On 16 June 2008, the Delhi Cabinet gave its nod for the construction of a Rs.152 crore storm-water drain project from Mahipalpur Chowk to Najafgarh drain.

Five villages will be covered under the project which includes - Mahipalpur, Rangpuri, Rajokari, Samalkha, Kapashera and Dwarka sub-city. Besides, the Airport Colony will also be covered and benefit from it.

The project will be implemented two phases. Work on the project is scheduled for completion within 12 months from the date of award of contract.

It will be a boon to people staying in Dwarka as real estate market will boom more and people staying on rent will have to spare a few more bucks from their pocket as improvement is infrastructue will increase land value.