The national highways network of India is a network of trunk roads that is managed and maintained by agencies of the Government of India. India has 100,087 km (62,191 mi) of national highways (NH) connecting all the major cities and state capitals as of June 2016. National highways comprise 1.7% of India's total road network, but carry about 40% of road traffic.
Current government has ambitious plans for increase highway coverage & improving quality of highways. As Digital India spends more on infrastructure maintenance & new highway construction it is important to use Affordable & Available Technology to monitor the development and reduce pilferage of funds. By affordable & available technology I mean use of Mobiles Sensor, GPS, Big Data Analytics & Predictive Data Analytics. Managing & monitoring highway development projects can help government monitor work in REAL TIME' (daily progress, as the works gets completed) and bring transparency. and implement Dynamic Investment by diverting money to projects that are financially more viable as compared to projects that are getting delayed due to unavoidable circumstances like unavailability of work force etc.
A sound IT solution should help help government improve
1) Ensure Consistent Quality of highway construction across India (and also Water Ways which is another project initiated by the government)
2) Real Time Status of work- by collecting daily progress data using mobile phones and GPS sensors in mobiles
3) Avoid & restrict delays by leveraging the daily progress data feeds
4) Perform smarter fund allocation based on trust worthy data collected via GPS sensors and camera
5) Big Data processing can be used to progress this huge amount of data and get meaningful reports that can present reports of all development activities in a single screen, also called Dashboard
6) Predictive analysis as the name suggests uses all past data to predict what can happen in future. For example which projects will complete work before time & which project will make loss and why. How much work will get completed by the year end? Which projects are making optimum use of construction material and which projects are wasting funds?
The following graphic illustrates how we can implement a simple solution to monitor road development with mobile devices.
Digital in not limited to bottom-up or top-down approach, digital is everywhere. Today every one uses a smartphone and we promote use of smartphones to collect data in real time. Real time monitoring will help monitor progress, detect issues faster and avoid pilfering of public funds. Hope Govt of India builds a similar simple solution to monitor the Highway Development.
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