Cement, Energy & Environment Jan-Mar 2002

mining engineers, technical consultants, cement companies, new entrepreneurs, financial institutions and policy planners. The draft document was released for review by Padmashri Dr. H C Visvesvaraya, former Ch airman & Director General, NCB. The occasion was well represented by more than 50 delegates of state I na tiona! level organisations like GSI, IBM, NMDC, Ministry ofMines, Planning Commission, State DGMs, Prominent Cement Companies, prospecting agencies and consultants. The revised and enlarged third edition of Norrns will contain additional chapters on Computer Aided Deposit Evaluation and Planning, Proforma and Guidelines for preparation of Mining Plan and Environmental Management Plan as per IBM guidelines and ElA-EMP clearance, etc. Courtesy: NCB News letter_ fun 2001, P 7. E-mail: nccbm@giasdlOl. vsnl.net.in SUBHAS RUES STATE OF CITY ROADS Tile Statesman Kolkata, 18.01. 2002 Mr. Subhas Chakraborty, sta te transport minis ter, today (17.01 2002) admitted that conditiop of roads in the city are not only bad, but are no match to those in neighbouring states like Orissa and Bihar. The minister was speaking at a technical meet on oil conservation through improved road conditions and traffic management organised by the Petroleum Conservation Research Association, Eastern Region. Mr. Chakraborty said roads in Salt Lake are a case in point, "Whenever I travel in Salt lake I feel like crying," he said. He said some plans are afoot to improve condition of roads on which tram tracks are laid. The need of the hour is to pay attention to quality control while constructing roads. " Concrete roads in the city need to be constructed in such a way that they last for at least 50 years. Metalled roads should last for 10 years. Modern machiners will be hired by the government to fecilitate construction of smoother roads ", the minister said. Experts at the meet agreed that fuel conservation depends large ly on traffic management and road conditions. Courtesy: Cement News Digest, 19-25 Jan. 2002, Pp 14- 15 URL: www. cmaindia. Org Email: cmand @ nda vsnl. net. in TNRDC MODEL ROAD SHOWS THE WAY TO CASH-STRAPPED STATE GOVTS. A good road is a dream of every Indian. But for most of them, be it in cities or villages, it is still a day-dream. Large-sca le highway development projects involving crores of rupees have been planned and piecemeal works has been done in certain stretches. India has a road length of 3.3 million km, whereas the National Highway Development Projects cover only about 15,000 km. The answer to how the rest of the Roads can be developed, given the economic, ecological and social constraints that the country faces, perhaps lies on a 113 km stretch of the East Coast Road, beginning from the outskirts of Chennai up to Pondicherry city limits. This 63