Dept seeks CRRI help for infra works

Bhubaneswar: To introduce innovation in road and building construction work, the public works department is planning to collaborate with the Delhi-based CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI).
In a letter to the institute’s director, the public works department stated, “Works department is interested to promote use of new technologies and innovative materials in infrastructure projects so that implementation of new technologies at site, research and knowledge transfer can take place.”
Ashok Kumar Giri, chief engineer (roads and building) requested CSIR-CRRI to share such kinds of field-oriented research proposal with usage of technologies and innovative materials to promote their application in infrastructure projects.The public works department has proposed that the pilot project should be directly supervised and monitored by CSIR-CRRI while the department will provide required funding and pilot infrastructure for the project during the implementation stage.