Smooth, pristine roads; traffic
flowing at over 100km/h; emergency medical teams on standby for accidents. It
is not an image many would associate with the Indian road network. But India
is changing at last.
The country is witnessing one of the world's largest
road building projects, worth more than $12bn. With roads up to six lanes
wide covering nearly 14,000 kilometres (8,750 miles), Indian officials say
the country is finally gearing up to take on its Asian economic rival, China.
In October 1998 Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee promised the people of
India world-class roads connecting the whole country.
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"As the city progresses there will be more factories. People will get more
facilities - more employment," said Shravan Singh, a resident of of Dehmai
village in Rajsthan's Behror district. But the new technology is also proving
so tempting to some that they cannot keep their hands off it. So much so, in
fact, that the authorities are having to think up ways to stop the electronic
gadgets from being vandalised or stolen.
Read the report at BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3043235.stm