India’s huge road network comprises of national highways, expressways, state highways, major district roads, among others. The market for roads and highways is projected to exhibit a CAGR of 36.16 per cent during 2016-2025. This clearly portrays the fact that in future, the already vast road network in the country will expand further. Well, it is a good sign of growth but here comes the worry about making India’s growing network of roads safer and sound. Road safety should be made an in-built feature of design and construction of road, not only for national and state highways but also for rural roads. This brings equipment like motor graders into picture.

In order to ensure that the roads remain safer in the longer run, it is necessary to ensure that quality roads are built and this can be made possible only through employing technologically sound road Construction Equipment (CE). However, it is generally seen that in order to the curtail the prices of the road CE, contractors or construction company owners take an easy approach towards safety and quality parameters by employing outdated machines. This thinking needs to be changed. The contractors as well as construction company owners need to understand that better quality equipment give extra output from the same equipment than those without such features.

Role of motor grader
Typically, equipment like motor graders, backhoe loaders, vibratory compactors among few others are important equipment used in the construction of roads. If we talk about motor graders in particular, then they are highly versatile and used to make land surface smooth and produce fine grades. Overall, motor graders improve productivity and efficiency at the jobsite.

Over the years, motor graders have highly improved and become technologically advanced. They come loaded with features that can improve the road construction process and improve the quality of roads, thereby, making them safer.

With magnifying focus on rural as well as urban roads, technological advancement is called for that is conducive for the Indian scenario. Most of such graders are manufactured by international companies, however their usage in the Indian scenario is restricted. These machines are not a good fit for construction of narrow roads in rural and urban areas here. For this, the company offers its RoadMaster G90, which is ideal for Indian roads including small and medium roads, state highways and national highway expansion projects.

Mahindra RoadMaster G90: making India’s roads safer
Here is a look at the technologically-advanced product:
Machine control technology: Generally, road construction is very labour-intensive and time-consuming task combined with sub-optimal methods and unsuitable machinery. This leads to poor quality roads with a short lifespan, resulting in added expenses for maintaining roads and re-doing them over and over again. However, RoadMaster G90 can reach the final grade much faster with more accuracy, thus, saving time and cost associated with rework tasks. This increases productivity at construction site and jobsite and helps operators maintain consistent grade with its advanced machine controls.

GPRS-based remote monitoring system: RoadMaster G90 comes with GPRS-based remote monitoring system DigiSense that can keep a track of your machine with the touch of a finger. Through this, you can get constant updates on your equipment through SMS that makes equipment maintenance easy. Thus, when the equipment remains in good condition, it is sure to make good and quality roads.

Advanced joystick controls: RoadMaster G90 possesses ergonomic layout and seating with all the controls smooth and easy to reach and has spacious canopy, lockable storage and mobile charging. The equipment boosts safety, efficiency and productivity at all times with advanced control joysticks. Operators can easily shift steer, adjust blade, articulate, control hydraulics and access automated grading systems without taking their hands off the controls.

Other features include 91 HP DiTEC engine and coupled with a 3-metre wide blade, the 3000-mm moldboard of RoadMaster G90 comes with an option of having its size reduced by 400 mm. Its mouldboard is designed to suit required productivity and durability. It offers full blade visibility from operator station for superior grade finish. Advance active hydraulics centre pin dampening for precise finish in lesser passes and delivering zero compromise grading at 40 per cent cost as compared to conventional motor graders, are among other features.