State ushers in Green Road Technology
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 07 2013:
Imphal ushered in adoption of green technology in road construction domain by initiation of a prototype & live demonstration of environment friendly Cold Mix Technology in Takyel Maning Leikia, West Imphal on Thursday.
The event was attended by N Babuchand, Chief Engineer, Manipur State Rural Roads Development Agency (MSRRDA); S Sundar Singh, Superintendent Engineer, MSRRDA; Gopendra Singh, Superintendent Engineer (Planning) MSRRDA; Akoijam Inaocha Singh (Proprietor) (AKI Supply Agency) Channel Partner of BITCHEM; Y Thoiba Singh, Contractor (PMGSY) .
Given the importance of roads in development and maintaining ecological balance it is imperative for North East to embrace new alternative and superior technologies of road construction including cold mix, public waste and jute.
This would not only ensure enhanced rural connectivity but will also give a much-needed push to the Central Government funded scheme Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), which aims to provide connectivity to all unconnected habitations in the rural areas in a time bound manner.
Dr PK Jain, Senior Scientist of CRRI, the nodal body for roads research in India, said, "Today there are many new environment-friendly and sustainable technologies available for roads construction, which are especially suited to hilly, cold or rainy conditions like in North East and it is imperative that we use these to enhance rural connectivity and prosperity by increasing the construction season" .
N Babuchand, Chief Engineer, MRRDA, said "Roads can play an integral role in the development of the society and overall growth of the state.
Manipur state has good potential for Cold Mix Technology.
It is worthwhile to mention that it has already been incorporated in DPR (Detail Project Report) up to black topping packages of PMGSY-IX and already 2100 kms of DPR has been made for Cold Mix Emulsion.
Subrata Nandi, AGM, S&M, Bitchem informed that Assam had taken a lead in introducing the environment-friendly cold mix technology in rural roads construction and over 1500 km of rural roads have been built, it's time for other states including Imphal in NE to follow.
Cold mix technology is considered greener, safer and facilitates faster roll out suiting the climatic and terrain conditions of the north eastern region.
According to National Rural Road Development Agency (NRRDA) of Ministry of Rural Development, road construction and repair work done using hot mix is often sub-standard and there is a need to use cold mix for the same.
The terrain in and around 70 percent of the North East Region is hilly and mountainous and the entire region gets very heavy rainfall ranging from 2500 mm to 6000mm which makes communication difficult.
Unlike plains, the construction of roads in hilly areas is different, extremely difficult and much expensive and hence it important to innovate and use new technologies for faster and enduring roll out of roads.
It may be mentioned here that Bitchem is India's only environment friendly rural road focused road science organization which has experience of more than 1500 kms of cold mix paving of rural roads .
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