Indian Construction & Infrastructure management- Where are we lacking ?

The standard practices and checklists are considered theoretical way of working and are avoided in the name of practicality. That is how we work in India. This does not always affect adversly but the chances of unwanted situations increase due to such practices.

According to me, DMRC is an efficient and an outstanding corporation. But technological failures do happen sometimes, they happen all over the world. It is something to be regretted, it is something from which a lesson can be learnt...In way we should look at it as a setback.
Coming on to design aspects, there were little faults in design. Due to over load,on it. There was a defect in the peer cap which caused the displacement which were first noticed by the labourers which our officials neglected. I feel this was reason for this accident.....

Also, there are lot of flaws in our system of Bridge construction. Indian construction is still using old style of constructing bridges and adoption of new technology is minimal. The reason I think may be lack of awareness, fixed mindset and those processes being too much costly..

General tendancy in our construction industry is to  give least importance to the checklist to be follwed and there is lack of constant vigilance in supervision. The instance of the worker pointing out the defect in the pillar and the negligence shown by the engineer in charge as said by pragya all are pointing to this fact.

Excessive dependence on contractors and sub contractors lead no where.The micro planning now should be order of the day rather than the norm.Each activities should be planned meticulously.The method statement for each activities should be drawn taking care of any uncertainty.The casualties may be prevented with bird's eye on minute details defined  like rescue operations and out reach.

We are mostly lacking in using appropriate technology in every feild including construction & Infrastructure building. I conclude the result of every accident is only due to a human error.We as Indians are bit relaxed because we are in best democratic region and era, so face the cosequenes more than others. It is high time to think of appropriate technology of mass production of pre fabricated units in all infrastructure works and transport to site for fixing. It can begin from menufacturing of houses to any other items.It is also necessary to train contineously regarding use of checklist, construction sefty to all concerned irespective of his qualification and post. The detail repot of error at site be diplayed for knowldge of others.

At first, I am not aware of the procedures laid out for each of the major activity of this mega project and the quality control during their implementaion. In my Opinion we are lacking in Stringent Quality Control. If proper procedures and plans would have been done before executing the jobs and thereafter stringent qulaity control would have been there by dedicated people, these lives could have been saved.

Rajesh

Definitely India is now reasonably have sound practice of Project/Construction Mnagement in place.But I feel Risk Mnagement which is a very vital component in Project/Construction Management,many of our Practitioners are lacking.Risk assesment at the project initiation stage and review the risk assesment through out the project life cycle is very essential.The risk could be minimised or fully mitigated only by maintaining a risk register which is a dynamic document.The contractors risk register is also a part of the Project Risk register.The regular risk review meeting in particular interval should be conducted by the Risk manager.The owner has to realise this and ensure the risk management team are active in their assigned role.The repeated accidents happened with Delhi Metro as per my view may be a cause of lacking in the above aspect.If risk identified in appropriate time whether it's business risk,contracting risk,execution risk or any associted risk then it can be easily evaluted and minimized or mitigated.