desk
Share
News Topical, Digital Desk : The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided that now Automated and Intelligent Machine-Aided Construction (AI-MC) technology will be used in the construction of National Highways. The ministry, which has already used this technology as a pilot project on the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway, is confident that adopting this technology will not only increase the quality and transparency of construction, but will also stop the wastage of material used in construction.
Also, there will be time saving as compared to the normal construction process. Along with issuing detailed guidelines in this regard to all the states, the central government has also identified 26 national highway projects where AI-MC technology is to be used. At present, the length of national highways in the country is 1.46 lakh kilometers.
In the year 2023-24, national highways were constructed at an average of 34 km per day. If we look at the overall picture, currently 3000 km of national highways are high speed corridors and the target is to build 45 thousand km of high speed corridors by the year 2047. Meanwhile, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided that new technology should be used to complete future projects in a timely manner as well as to increase quality.
It has been claimed that the stakeholders have given good feedback on the use of AI-MC technology on the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway. Therefore, it has been decided to use it in other projects as well. In this, the machine will be automated. Digital data will be collected. The design will be followed completely. It is claimed that time will be saved and there will be no compromise on the quality of construction.
Since the work of payment, layer etc. determines the life of the road, the new technology will ensure it to the maximum extent. This technology will include GPS aided motor grader, intelligent compaction roller and compaction meter value etc. for earth related work - base, sub-base.
Approved projects identified for AI-MC
- Western Gwalior Bypass in Madhya Pradesh – 29 km
- New Sambalpur Bypass in Odisha – 35 kms
- Six-lane Greenfield Southern Ludhiana Bypass - 25 kms
- Four-lane Greenfield North Patiala Bypass – 29 kms
- Deoghar Bypass, Jharkhand – 49 kilometers
- South Bareilly Bypass - 30 kms
- Sagar Bypass- 25km
- Rahatgarh to Barkhedi NH - 10 km
- Aerocity Road – Ramgarh (Zirakpur Bypass) – 19 kms
- Shillong-Silchar Corridor - 167 km
- Patna-Ara-Sasaram NH- 125 km
- Pagote-Chowk NH, Maharashtra – 29 km
- Bendode-Kanakoun Bypass, NH-66 – 22.1 km
- Upgradation of Package-2 of NH- 927D in Gujarat – 47.6 km
- Vrindavan Bypass- 15 kms
- Colonelganj Bypass, NH- 330B- 14 km
Projects sent for cabinet approval
- Satellite Township Ring Road, Bengaluru – 144 kms
- Badvel-Nellore, Andhra Pradesh – 108 kms
- Four lane access controlled Sirhind-Sehna section, NH- 205AG – 107 km
- Capital Ring Road, Bhubaneswar – 111 km
- Paramakudi - Ramanathapuram National Highway - 47 kms
- Rameswaram-Paradip Coastal Highway - 163 km
- Andhra Pradesh-Karnataka-Raichu and Gudbelur-Marikal - 155 km
- Mahabalipuram-Puducherry Package-3- 46 km- Sahibganj-Areraj-Bettiah- 103 km
- Nashik-Ahmednagar-Solapur-Akkalkot segment of Surat-Chennai Expressway – 374 km
Read More: Railways changed the rules for emergency quota tickets, know what is the new instruction
--Advertisement--
