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Donga_evaru
Desanike Pedda Bewarse
Username: Donga_evaru
Post Number: 7384
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 134.93.55.157
| | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 2:31 pm: |    |
amar mayya  |
Amar
Kurra Bewarse
Username: Amar
Post Number: 775
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 67.163.33.206
| | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 2:27 pm: | |
still coming another C & P. good paragraphs post chestuna
If Bihar was enemy territory for the professionals roosting in rugged camps to build India's dream highway, America was the promised land. India's traffic with America has never been higher; sending a child there had become a middle-class "craze," in one engineer's word.
The founding elites of India were British-educated. Today, the ambitious young pursue degrees from Wharton and Stanford, with some 80,000 Indian students in the United States. Two million Indians live there, working as doctors, software engineers, and motel owners along America's highways.
No surprise, then, that America has shaped the ideas of what India's highway can be. Mr. Rao's deputy, B. K. Rami Reddy, also with a daughter in America, was nearly breathless as he described one stretch of finished roadway in southern India: "You really feel like you are in the U.S., it is so nice. When you go on that road, you feel you are somewhere else."
The implicit effort to make India "somewhere else," more like America, more of the first world and less of the third, girds this entire project. With the highway and India's accompanying rise, Mr. Rao predicted that by 2010 or 2020, "Indians may not feel the need to go abroad." |
Donga_evaru
Desanike Pedda Bewarse
Username: Donga_evaru
Post Number: 7378
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 134.93.55.157
| | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 2:14 pm: | |
amar mayya 
vishayam seppamante C & P chethunnava  |
Amar
Kurra Bewarse
Username: Amar
Post Number: 774
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 67.163.33.206
| | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 2:08 pm: | |
Neem. Mango. Sisam. Most delicate of all, holy peepul, the Indian fig, which could not be cut without prime ministerial dispensation. In work contracts several phone books thick, every tree that would be felled for the highway's construction was documented before its demise.
This reflected not only the bureaucracy that had slowed the project, despite the efforts of Mr. Khanduri, the former roads minister. For Hindus, trees are sacred; one highway official said Muslims were sometimes hired to cut them down at night.
Then there were the hundreds, or thousands, of religious institutions that lined the highway. Contractors were required to move or rebuild every one. On some stretches, contractors said they suspected that new religious structures had been hastily nailed together to extract compensation for their moving. Hindu contractors and officials whispered about the "sensitivities" of moving mosques for fear of offending India's Muslim minority. |
Donga_evaru
Desanike Pedda Bewarse
Username: Donga_evaru
Post Number: 7375
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 134.93.55.157
| | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 2:03 pm: | |
BJP lo vunnavallalo manchi vadu vajpayee anukunta  |
Amar
Kurra Bewarse
Username: Amar
Post Number: 773
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 67.163.33.206
| | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 2:00 pm: | |
The highway was conceived in 1998, soon after a Hindu nationalist-led government took power. The prime minister at the time, Mr. Vajpayee, quickly ordered a series of nuclear tests, and later that year announced the highway project.
Former aides say that both moves were essential to Mr. Vajpayee's nationalist vision of a secure, competitive India. To circumvent India's entrenched bureaucracy, Mr. Vajpayee empowered an autonomous authority to oversee the highways, streamline the contracting process and privilege the private sector.
He allowed foreign companies in to do much of the work, ending four decades of postcolonial self-sufficiency, and imposed taxes and tolls, challenging a political culture engorged with government subsidies.
The man responsible for executing these shifts was Maj. Gen. B. C. Khanduri, who had been India's minister of roads. A year after he left the post, he still kept a map of the Golden Quadrilateral on his wall. |
Donga_evaru
Desanike Pedda Bewarse
Username: Donga_evaru
Post Number: 7373
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 134.93.55.157
| | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 1:55 pm: | |
antha chadive voopika ledhu...kluptham ga cheppu mama ...
higways connecting 4 corners of india ani thelusu ..inkemanna vundha ... |
Bhavani
Bewarse
Username: Bhavani
Post Number: 1516
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 70.251.238.181
| | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 1:54 pm: | |
EE ARTICLE JANAALU CHADIVI UNTE BAAVUNDEDI!!!!
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors |
Amar
Kurra Bewarse
Username: Amar
Post Number: 772
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 67.163.33.206
| | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 1:52 pm: | |
check this article. i would rate vajpayee's contribution for india is this quadrilateral highway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/international/as ia/04highway.html?hp |
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