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Infrastructure provision and its sustained enhancements are critical in attaining economic and social accomplishments. The provision, availability and access to these services determine the overall social and economic development thereby improvements in quality of life and poverty reduction. Considering the importance of provision of infrastructure facilities as a constituent component of development, central and state governments across the country in the recent years have undertaken several developmental projects in various sectors ushering the growth of infrastructure development.

However development of infrastructure at a small or a large scale is bound to have an impact on the society. Positive impacts of infrastructure development would definitely help in poverty alleviation, socio-economic growth and cultural development. But negative impacts could manifest in the form of social impoverishment, environmental pollution and depletion and cultural disorientation and displacement. 

In fostering a positive change and overcoming negative impacts, CMSR has been an active partner in many developmental interventions and projects undertaken by central and state governments and international funding agencies. It has worked in various sectors, especially, power, roads and highways, municipal administration and urban development, health and irrigation. With its professional research and management expertise it has helped foster meaningful development interventions could help various agencies and governments in attaining the goal of socio-economic growth and development.

CMSR as a professional research organization has prepared policies, action plans, management modules and undertaken various social and environmental assessments for various agencies and governments and has amassed extensive experience in planning, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of project in various sectors. The sector specific experience of CMSR is given below.

Roads & Highways

Roads are an important infrastructure that is intended to facilitate movement of passenger and freight traffic across the length and breadth of any country. In India increase in its population, industrial and agricultural growth has resulted in a tremendous increase in road traffic. To address this problem, construction of better roads and increased connectivity has been a major concern of the central and the state governments. This drive has resulted in the initiation of major road projects in India like the Golden Quadrilateral, the North-South and the East-West Corridors, Andhra Pradesh State Highways Project (APSHP), Uttar Pradesh State Roads Project (UPSRP) etc.

CMSR’s initiation of its consultancy services in the road sector is associated with the Andhra Pradesh State Highways Project (APSHP), the first major roads project in India. It has also worked on major road packages of other state highways projects and National Highways. It has worked as a partner with Institutions like National Highways Authority of India, Uttar Pradesh Public Works Department, Andhra Pradesh Roads and Buildings Department etc. It has also trained and conducted workshops for the officials of these institutions on Resettlement and Rehabilitation and Environmental Management. 

Power

Power and energy sector plays an important role in modern economic development and especially countries like India, which solely rely on the uses of energy for their agricultural, industrial and social development. Recognizing this fact, provision of electricity has become one of the major goals of the Indian government for overall development of its urban and rural areas. In this pursuit to improve the quality of power supply, infrastructure and service delivery many states in India have undertaken large-scale restructuring and reformation steps. While planning the provision of infrastructure for transmission and generation of electricity under the new reform initiatives, issues pertaining to social, economic and environmental impacts due to power projects have occupied a lot of importance in the recent years. 

CMSR has extensively worked this sector with special reference to “Resettlement and Rehabilitation and Environment Management”. CMSR had the opportunity to work with institutions like Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited (AP Transco), Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL), Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) and Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL). It has prepared the Resettlement & Rehabilitation Policies, Resettlement Action Plans and Environmental Safeguard Policies for these institutions. It also has carried out Social Assessment of Power sector Reforms for Government of Karnataka.

Municipal Administration & Urban Development

Urban challenges like population growth, water scarcity, biodiversity, energy crisis, and industrial production are major concerns for today’s planning. About half of the world’s population is living in cities and towns consuming large amount of resources and generating huge quantities of waste, and thus became leading sources of social and environmental problems. There is thus a need for urban planning on a more sustainable basis to avoid environmental and social crisis. The range of problems varies according to income levels and spatial level of the impact. These problems are inextricably linked to poverty and productivity as well as other macro-economic performances. Major urban sector issues like disproportionate number of urban poor, increase in the number of the urban poor, inadequate urban services, weak urban governance and management, lack of conducive infrastructure financing systems, perverse incentives created by intergovernmental fiscal system for poor Urban Local Bodies (ULB) performance and ineffective land management have been the issues of contention for most of the state governments in the developing world and more so in India.

Environment

From times immemorial human beings have been very closely linked and dependent on the physical environment around them. The destructive effects of human occupancy have been cumulative and sometimes accelerative. However environmental depletions, pollutions, and disruptions have become critical in scale and in rate only within the past century or so, and these effects have become widely recognized and assessed only within the past few decades.

The hazards of spreading industrialization and population growth have been incessantly posing a problem to the environmental balance. The dangers that have cropped up due to indefinite human activity in exploiting the finite environmental habitat have not gone unnoticed. In this regard, governments and international funding agencies across the world have devised measures to manage environmental issues that may pose danger to the environment. Environmental policies, plans, protection acts, legislations have been formulated to mitigate environmental problems and develop environmentally sustainable developmental projects.