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The Tender SURE Guidelines
The TENDER SURE project has begun (Volumes 1&2) have been in
a snowball influence on city and state demand by municipal governments,
contractors, design consultants, project
governments across the country, to adopt management consultants across the
standards for the design, contracting and country, and used for development
of their own local road projects and
maintenance of these city roads, thereby contracts. The guidelines provide the

having a direct impact on how we experience methodology to replicate this kind of
redevelopment. They provide solutions
our roads as pedestrians, bicyclists, for urban street design in India both
motorists and street vendors and replacing in terms of design and execution. The
guidelines are structured to adapt to
the urban noise that we now experience, context based on design capabilities,
with more aesthetic and people-friendly budgetary allocations and political
will. However, it is important to note
cities and neighbourhoods. that each road has its own unique
characteristics that demand careful
detailing and integration - this is not a
simple “cut-paste” exercise.
How can this be replicated the GOI estimated India’s Urban Bangalore municipality has hosted
in other cities Infrastructure needs, placing the total visits on the Tender SURE project from
cost at over $1 trillion over the next 20 numerous representatives of cities and
TENDER SURE has enormous states across India that are interesting
potential to be scaled across the years – of this, close to 50% or $500 in replicating the Tender SURE model.
country. To give a sense of the billion will be spent on local city roads, Chennai, Davangere have included
importance of having such standards, tens of thousands of kilometres across Tender SURE roads as a key project
a High Powered Committee under 8,000+ urban settlements. in their approved budgets. Pune’s

St. Marks Road: Before Tender SURE

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