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Submitted To:
Mr. Krishna Murari Senior Lecturer Department Of Civil Engineering
Submitted By:
Parag Agrawal Er No.-091537 Civil (D2)
EXPRESSWAY MAP LENGTH: 93 KM(58 MILES) FROM: TO: STATE: KALAMBOLI(NEAR PANVEL) DEHU ROAD (NEAR PUNE) MAHARASHTRA
HISTORY:
In 1990, the Government of Maharashtra appointed RITES and Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick of United Kingdom to carry out feasibility studies for the new expressway to be operated on toll basis.. The Government of Maharashtra entrusted the work of the construction of MumbaiPune expressway to MSRDC in March 1997 on Build-Operate-Transfer basis with permission to collect toll for 30 years. The environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India was received on October 13, 1997. The Forest Clearance was received on November 11, 1997. The tender notice was published in leading newspapers all over India and also on the Internet. Due to wide publicity, 133 tenders were sold and on December 18, 1997, 55 tenders were received. After technical and financial evaluation, tenders were accepted and work orders were given on January 1, 1998 to four contractors. Thereafter tenders for widening of Khandala and Lonavala-Khandalabypass works were invited. The tenders were received on August 24, 1998 and orders were issued on September 4, 1998.
RITES Limited is an engineering consultancy company, specializing in the field of transport infrastructure. Established in 1974 by the Government of India, RITES has since diversified into planning and consulting services for infrastructure including railwayss,airports, ports, highways and urban planning.
SAFETY:
The Expressway has witnessed a large number of accidents, attributed to human errors and the large volume of traffic. In 10 years there were 1758 accidents, with more than 400 fatalities. Sporadic instances of robbery have also been reported in the highway.The entire length of expressway has a single layer of barbed wire fencing to keep out stray cattle.
TUNNELS:
It has five illuminated, ventilated tunnels totalling 5,724 metres. These tunnels were built by the Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. These are:
Bhatan, Madap, Adoshi, khandala, Kamshet 1 , kamshet 2.
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENTS:
Modern machinery used in the project includes high capacity cone crushers, sandmanufacturing machines, computer controlled automated batching plants and laser guided slipform pavers. This level of quality and speed would be impossible without automation. Equipment costing Rs 300 crore was purchased for achieving this fast track construction.
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195.05
194.00
22.995
177.46
163.56
16.150
132.70
133.47
7.130
86.46
93.15
Package II: Long tunnel to Lonavla bypass Panvel bypass Package I: 0/0 to 8/200 Package II: 8/200 to 9/750 Tunnel work 5 twin tunnels Other expenses: Toll plaza, building, fencing, sign boards, technical consultant
8.280
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104.35
Shapoorji Pallonji& Co, with Lighten Asai joint venture Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Chennai PBA-PCEC (joint venture), Mumbai M Venkat Rao, Visakhapa tnam Konkan Railway Corporatio n Ltd
8.200
108.00
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1.550
64.50
49.99
5.724
200.00
200.00
324.00
The total formation width is about 45 m, and as such sufficient workspace is available to the contractor for deploying large number of construction equipment. Most of the work to be done using heavy machinery considering work volume and time limit.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
After evaluating all the options we feel that the best alternative is the financing of road sector is through a two-tier scheme combining both BOT contract with the private sector and the use of the Central Road Fund.