Infrastructure Related

News: As many as 176 flood forecasting stations have been set up across the country where predictions are made during every monsoon whenever the water level exceeds limits, Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti said. The Minister said the meteorological inputs based on remote sensing technology received from India Meteorological Department ...

News: Power Grid Corporation is preparing to award the country’s first technology trial for grid connected energy storage. The Centre has invited proposals from states on setting up two-three smart grid systems in proposed smart cities in each state as part of the National Smart Grid Mission. India Smart Grid ...

News: The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, gave its approval for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of India and the Government of Nepal for the construction of a petroleum products pipeline from Raxaul (India) to Amlekhgunj (Nepal) and re-engineering ...

News: West Bengal aims to generate about 100 MW from rooftop solar units over the next two to three years. West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission (WBERC) has decided to appoint an ombudsman for each district to allow power consumers to get their grievances redressed at the local level. WBERC chairman ...

News: Iran has promised India the licence to develop ONGC-discovered Farzad-B gas field in the Persian Gulf. A consortium of ONGC Videsh Ltd (the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp), Oil India Ltd and Indian Oil Corp had discovered the 12.8 Trillion cubic feet of gas reserves in ...

News: The state water resources department, notorious for awarding irrigation contracts at hugely inflated rates to select contractors, wants to shed its scam-tainted image. The irrigation contractors have started quoting rates below the official estimate. Another 17 contracts were given at par, while 21 works were quoted above the estimate. ...

News: The government plans to push power sector reforms through its new coal supply mechanism, by ensuring that it benefits only those state distribution companies that agree to raise tariffs periodically and cut distribution losses. The government is working on the incentive-based scheme to award coal supply contracts to state ...

News: India, China and Bangladesh are among the top recyclers of the world’s waste and the environment ministry had all these years generously permitted import of PET bottles by licensed recycling units in India. The ministry of environment, forests & climate change, issued order, banned import of all used plastic ...

News: For easy access between Visakhapatnam and Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur, the Central Government has taken up the four-laning of National Highway 43 (NH-43) which is now renumbered as NH-26. While Visakhapatnam would get fresh business opportunities, Chhattisgarh will get access to the port and the international airport in Andhra Pradesh. ...

News: Some of India’s dark patches could soon get futuristic luminous highways. These highways, costing just 15-20 per cent more than regular highways, do not require any street lights and come to light on their own as a photo-luminescent coating similar to glow-in-the-dark paint creates ethereal looking lines that get charged by ...