Experts flag DPR gaps: Call for urban planners in highway projects; IIT, SPA offer NHAI help

NEW DELHI: Planning and mentation of road projects passing done municipality areas indispensable impact municipality and transport planners, experts said astatine a league connected “Crash Safety and Physical Planning” held astatine IIT-Delhi connected Friday.Director of School of Planning and Architecture, Virendra Kumar Paul claimed that road engineers person little capableness to measure elaborate task reports (DPRs). “DPR is an issue. We had trained immoderate NHAI engineers astatine IIT, Delhi. We could recognize that they don’t person the competence to woody with DPRs. They don’t person involvement successful heavy diving into the DPR either due to the fact that they are excessively bureaucratic oregon springiness that task to an outer consultant,” helium said successful the beingness of Ajay Tamta, MoS of roadtransport and highways minietry.Highways passing done municipality areas request peculiar attraction arsenic the fig of fatal crashes are usually higher owed to much struggle of antithetic roadworthy users.SPA and IIT-Delhi offered to the ministry to instrumentality up immoderate aviator projects of evaluating DPRs prepared for NHAI and different agencies. The IIT enactment besides suggested the curate to acceptable up a Centre of Excellence to woody with clang investigation.Addressing the gathering, Tamta called for a paradigm displacement from reactive operation to proactive, innovation-led planning, wherever roadworthy projects are nary longer isolated engineering exercises, but integrated, multi-sectoral improvement tools. He said determination is simply a request for innovations which not lone amended safety, but besides tackle chronic issues successful roadworthy projects specified arsenic onshore acquisition challenges, municipality postulation congestion, mediocre last-mile connectivity, and outgo overruns.