Initiatives

TN government said it will provide internet services, including IPTV, through the state-run cable TV operator TACTV and implement the Centre’s broadband project “BharatNet” linking more than 12,500 rural local bodies in the state at an investment of Rs 3,000 crore. Already, 552 cable operators had been roped in and services ...

The Andhra Pradesh government has entrusted Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada metro rail projects to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said. The Union Minister said since the low population of Guntur doesn’t make metro rail feasible, they were planning to have high-speed rail between Guntur and Vijayawada ...

Delhi government will soon introduce ‘self-attestation’ and do away with the need of filing affidavits or getting various certificates attested by gazetted officers and MLAs as part of its efforts to bring a “paradigm” shift in governance. This move would bring relief to the general public who have to go through ...

Bridge International Academies is the world’s largest and fast growing low-cost pre-primary and primary education services provider working with children from under-served communities. Bridge International Academies, which currently educates hundred thousand children in more than 400 schools in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria  plans to foray into India with its proposed ...

The tail-end farmers in West Godavari and also some parts in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh, expressed their strong resistance on releasing water through right canal. The capacity of the pump is 354 cusecs and if the 4.71 MV motor runs for 24 hours 0.3 tmcft water will be pumped ...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu released water from the Thotapalli irrigation project and dedicated it to the nation at Vullibhadra area. The AP CM said that the estimated project cost was Rs 450 crore in 2003 and it was to be completed in two years, but it was ...

Additional Chief Secretary, General Administration Department, PS Meena, said that the Right to Services(RTS) Act will be linked to the government’s grievance redress portal, ‘Aaple Sarkar’. “Citizens can apply for caste, death and birth certificates, make online payments and the certificate will be delivered at home,” Meena said. The state government ...

Glaxo Smith Kline Pharma began work for setting up a Rs 1,000 crore pharmaceutical manufacturing unit in Karnataka. Work on GSK India’s new Rs 1,000 crore pharmaceutical factory at Vemgal in Karnatka, has already started. It will be fully operational in 2017 and will make more than 8 billion tablets ...

Government has placed defence order of Rs 2 lakh crore under buy and Make in India category to boost local manufacturing sector. DIPP Joint Secretary Shubhra Singh said that among 25 sectors identified for Make in India campaign, defence and aerospace are being increasingly looked upon as one of the most promising ...

Nearly Rs. 2,42,160-crore worth investments were finalised at the Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet, more than double of the Rs. 1 lakh crore targeted by the government, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said. The government would come out with policies for textiles, micro, small and medium enterprises, IT and ITES, electronics, aerospace ...