In response to climatic and seismic concerns, India is strengthening crucial infrastructure safety protocols.
According to many sources, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is overhauling a slew of design standards and quality benchmarks, ranging from oil pipelines to steel and concrete structures.
India has begun updating essential infrastructure standards to increase their lifetime and resistance to catastrophes, as the nation intends to increase capital asset investment by 37.4% to 10 lakh crore in 2023-24. The modifications are necessitated by the changing nature of climate-change-induced natural catastrophes, as well as a study of seismic threats to critical economic assets, according to authorities. Earthquakes, such as the one that struck Turkey last month, can devastate the country, with 59% of its landmass subject to severe seismic activity.
According to many sources, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is overhauling a slew of design standards and quality benchmarks, ranging from oil pipelines to steel and concrete structures.
Several of the country’s finest IT institutions have been tasked with R&D for the makeover by the standards organisation. Last week, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal reviewed BIS’s core initiatives, which include new standards for a variety of goods and services, and asked staff to increase market surveillance. Houses in the hills and mountains will also be subject to tighter building rules, particularly in light of the recent land slide in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath, which evacuated people. In the last five years, India has installed more than 60,000 km of national roads to connect major industrial areas, as well as tripling port capacity and adding approximately 100 GW of power capacity.
One of the first objectives is to update the country’s “probabilistic seismic hazard map,” on which new codes will be based, and work on which is being done at IIT Madras. Infrastructure like as pipelines, the arteries that feed industry with everything from water to oil, would have updated design requirements for greater earthquake protection, according to Chitra Gupta, senior BIS scientist.
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