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India’s First National Highway Steel Slag Road section on NH- 66 Mumbai-Goa National Highway inaugurated Source: PIB
URL: https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1995906
CSIR-CRRI’s Steel Slag Road Technology is paving the way to build stronger and eco-friendly national highways in the country: Dr. V.K. Saraswat
Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Member (S&T), NITI AAYOG inaugurated India’s First National Highway Steel Slag Road section on NH- 66 Mumbai-Goa National Highway today. Dr Saraswat said that the Steel Slag Road Technology, developed by CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI... |
India’s first National Highway Steel Slag road section on NH-66 Mumbai-Goa National Highway inaugurated! Know all about this groundbreaking eco-friendly initiative Source: The Financial Express
URL: https://www.financialexpress.com/business/roadways-india-gets-its-first-steel-slag-road-on-nh-66-mumbai-goa-national-highway-know-all-about-this-groundbreaking-eco-friendly-initiative-3364017/
The construction process involved converting approximately 80,000 tons of CONARC Steel slag into processed steel slag aggregates at the JSW Steel Dolvi plant in Raigad.
In a significant development, India’s first National Highway Steel Slag Road section on NH-66... |
Special campaign 3.0 for institutionalizing SwachhataThe following activities were done for the observance of the Special campaign 3.0 for institutionalizing Swachhata and minimizing pendency in Govt offices from 2-10-2023 to 31-10-2023 . vide OM No. CRRI/QSP/ESD/S.P/22-23 dt 22-09-2023
I. CCN division has organised E-Pledge campaign to all the staff members during the period.
The following E-waste Pledge has been taken from https://pledge.mygov.in/e-waste-2022/ the site
E-Waste Pledge
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How these forensics on wheels help Delhi cops put cons behind bars NEW DELHI: The mobile forensics vans introduced to save time while lifting and analysing evidence from crime scenes have till August visited over 25,000 spots since their induction in February. This has proved a boon for police in their investigation. Forensic experts are able to perform on-the-spot forensic tests in the vans before sending them for further analyses to the Forensic Science Laboratory.
The spots visited this year till August related to house theft (10,492), burglary (4,164),... |
After lockdown, 35% rise in nanoparticle emissions NEW DELHI: Scientists have found that after the Covid lockdown eased in Delhi, the emission of nanoparticles, which are super-fine pollutants, increased by 35% on the city's roadside. Nanoparticles are fine pollutants which are about 1/1000th of particulate matter. They cannot be filtered out by N-95 masks.
Scientists in the department of environmental engineering at Delhi Technological University (DTU) and the space and atmospheric sciences division of the Physical Research Laboratory in... |
Over 80% of women complain buses don't stop for them at halts, says survey NEW DELHI: About 80.2% of women bus users surveyed during a study reported instances of the public transporters not halting for them at designated stops, a report by Greenpeace India released Tuesday said.
While 29% of the respondents faced such instances 'frequently', 50.2% said they experienced this 'occasionally' and 20.8% said they hadn't witnessed such episodes. Besides, 54.2% respondents said they were targeted with comments and faced discrimination from drivers, conductors and male... |
MCD to take EV charging infra to outskirts of Capital Source: Times of India 5th Oct 2023 URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/mcd-to-take-ev-charging-infra-to-outskirts-of-delhi/articleshow/104172799.cms?from=mdr
NEW DELHI: Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to expand its electric vehicle charging infrastructure to outer Delhi in the coming days.Officials said more charging facilities for e-auto or e-vehicles would be made in areas such as Narela, Najafgarh and Rohini so that people can use them in large numbers... |
An Assessment of Avoided CO2 Emissions during Construction, Maintenance and Operation of National Highways Source: teri Date: 22nd Feb 2023 Download
India has the 2nd largest road network in the world. Amongst the different types of roads, the National Highways extending to 1,44,634 km has contributed significantly to India’s rapid economic development. The rapid pace of construction of highways is enabling integration of the local economies of far flung towns and villages into the national economy.
Construction and maintenance of roads is known to be a source of CO2, which is over and above... |
India's First 'Slag Road' A Resounding success: covered by Australian Slag Association Source: https://issuu.com/hbmgroup/docs/asa_connections_may2022/8
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India hails success of first ‘steel-slag road’ Source: Global Construction Review
URL : https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/india-hails-success-of-first-steel-slag-road/
A stretch of six-lane road experimentally paved with slag from steel-making in India has been shown to weather the beating from thousands of heavy trucks even though the surface is 30% shallower than that of roads paved with natural aggregates.
Slag is made up of impurities melted out of the ore during the steel-making process.
The trial... |
Surat gets India’s first steel slag road: What is it, how is it different from regular ones? Source: The Indian Express
URL: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/surat-indias-first-steel-slag-road-7847675/
Surat has become the first city in the country to get a processed steel slag (industrial waste) road. What is so special about this project and how is it different from regular roads?
Surat has become the first city in the country to get a processed steel slag (industrial waste) road built as part of a joint-venture project by the Council of... |
Country's first "Steel slag road" laid in Surat: The Times of India, Ahmedabad Source: The Times of India, Ahmedabad
Date: 15th March 2022
New Delhi: The country’s first ‘steel slag road’ has come up in Surat, promising a huge potential to reduce the demand for aggregates in road construction. The successful implementation of the 1.2km six-lane connectivity stretch of the Hazira Port will also pave the way for utilisation of huge mounds of steel slag lying as waste across the country Aggregates are inert granular materials such as sand, gravel and crushed stone... |
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