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India's Lax Safety Standards, Few Qualified Personnel Obstacles to Highway Modernization.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, May, 2007
Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of engineers sent to India by the World Bank to assess efforts to modernize that nation's highway system has concluded that there are serious safety and personnel problems that need to be addressed.
The modernization of the national highway network is critical to India's economic development, said Kumares C. Sinha, the Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. But the current system and modernization efforts are plagued by major drawbacks, he said.
"Planning and design are often poorly done," said Sinha, who led the team. "Many projects are overdesigned, some are underdesigned. We found that there is an...
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