{"id":8984,"date":"2022-10-04T01:56:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T05:02:33","slug":"chennai-port-to-maduravoyal-elevated-corridor-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chennai-port-to-maduravoyal-elevated-corridor-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai port to Maduravoyal elevated corridor project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, the project developed at an estimated cost of \u20b95,800 crore will be completed by December 2024.<\/li>\n<li>It will serve as a dedicated freight corridor for Chennai bound port traffic and increase the handling capacity of Chennai Port by 48% and subsequently reduce the waiting time at the port by six hours.<\/li>\n<li>The project nearly doubles Chennai port\u2019s container handling capacity to 2.64 million TEUs.<\/li>\n<li>In July, 2022, tenders were called for the construction of a double tier four-lane elevated corridor on Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) mode under the Bharatmala Pariyojana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bharatmala Pariyojana<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new\u00a0umbrella programme\u00a0started in\u00a02017\u00a0under the ultimate administrative control of the\u00a0Ministry of Road Transport &amp; Highways (MoRTH),\u00a0Government of India, and will be implemented by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).<\/li>\n<li>This will be done by development of Economic Corridors, Inter Corridors and Feeder Routes, National Corridor Efficiency Improvement, Border and International connectivity roads, Coastal and Port connectivity roads and Green-field expressways.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a type of Public funding Model.<\/li>\n<li>In such types of models, full freedom to plan, design and construction is given to the private contractor and core requirements are specified in schedules.<\/li>\n<li>Payments by the Government are linked to specified stages of construction.<\/li>\n<li>The Contract Price is subject to adjustment on account of variation in the cost and change in scope ordered by employer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1864714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai Port -Maduravoyal Elevated Expressway by NHAI approved 4 lane access-controlled highway in Chennai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}