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Unit 19: Sectoral Performance II: Role of Infrastructure in Economic Development

Table 8 : Metro Rail Project Approved by the Government of India Notes

Project Length (km) Commissioning Cost
schedule range (`` `` ` Crores)
National Capital Region
Delhi MRTS Phase I 65.1 3/2004 to 11/2006 10,57
Delhi MRTS Phase II 54.7 6/2008 to 6/2010 11,68
Extension of Delhi Metro to Gurgaon 14.5 3/2010 1,58
Extension of Delhi Metro to NOIDA 7.0 11/2009 8
Central Secretariat at Badarpur 20.2 9/2010 4,02
Metro Link (Dwarka Sector-9 to Sector-21) 2.8 9/2010 32
Airport metro Express Link 22.7 9/2010 3,82
Total for Delhi & NCR 187.0 32,9
Metro rail project other than Nation capital Region
Banglore Metro 42.3 9/2012 8,18
Kolkata East-West Metro Corridor 14.7 1/2015 4,8
Chennai Metro 45 2014-15 14,6
Mumbai Metro Line-1 11.1 10/2010 23
Mumbai Metro Line-2 31.9 7,6
Total outside NCT 145 37,6
Grand total (NCT + outside NCT) 331.8 70,5

Source : Ministry of Urban Development, 2010.

Science and Technology
Science and Technology are ideas and the means with which man seeks to change his environment.
While science represents “accumulation of knowledge”, technology represents “refinement in tools”.
Over the last two hundred years or so, science and technology have helped to improve the quality of
human life. For rapid economic progress, the application of science and technology (S and T) to
agriculture, industry, transport and to all other economic and non-economic activities has become
essential. S and T are changing in other countries like USA, Russia, Germany, Japan etc., and new
knowledge and new technologies are being used in every line of production and these countries have
experienced tremendous economic progress. The recent progress in agriculture and the green
revolution it has ushered in has demonstrated to our people the promise of fulfilling the basic human
needs and improving the quality of life of our people.
Nehru and S & T
Jawaharlal Nehru believed in the spread of scientific temper. He was responsible for the setting up of
a chain of national laboratories devoted to basic and applied research, develop indigenous technology
and processes and help industrial enterprises in solving their technological problems. The Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as well as the Department of Atomic Energy were set up.
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) was strengthened. Then came the Department
of Electronics, Department of Space Technology, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) etc.,
In 1958 the Science Policy Resolution was adopted to provide positive incentives for the development
and utilisation of S and T in nation building activities. The major aims of this policy were :
(i) to foster, promote and sustain by appropriate means the cultivation in science and scientific
research in all its aspects-pure, applied and educational;

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