In a present economy like India creating jobs and providing employment is the top most prairie. Conventional way of laying pipes and cables provides employment to a lot of people. This technology has a complete understanding of this fact. Hence, their approach to the Indian Market is to launch the trenchless way of operation hand-in-hand with the traditional method. It does not make sense any more to dig up high value surfaces of megacities and townships which causes incalculable disruption, inconvenience and rising social cost. Not only this method is time consuming but also inefficient and resulting in disruption to public and business sectors. Therefore the traditional method should continue to operate in the outer cities and inter-city regions which will continue to provide employment but the high value surfaces must be dealt through trenchless method.
However the following are the difficulties arising while laying utilities through conventional method.
- No excavation work can be done for almost 6 months due to monsoon.
- Long waiting period for getting permission to dig up roads. In certain cases it may not even be granted at all.
- >High corporation tax.
- Traffic congestion, inconvenience to people, pollution and rising social cost.
- Very often, damaging other utilities and hence paying large compensations.