Infrastructure Related

The minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Shri Nitin Gadkari said that the Inland Waterways is economically most viable sector, in his inaugural address at the ‘National Conference on Inland Waterways: Issues, Options and Strategies’. He added that development of inland waterways would lower the logistics cost of production and, ...

In a move to reduce the freight charges between India and Bangladesh, the Union Cabinet has approved the agreement on Coastal Shipping to carry out movement of goods between the two countries. Exim trade between the two nations would be benefited and also the utilization of port capacities of Indian ports ...

News The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015. The changes will facilitate farmers to get better compensation and rehabilitation and resettlement benefits in lieu ...

News The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the constructions of trunk infrastructure components and landscaping for Phase-1 of the Shendra Bidkin Industrial Area (SBIA) spreading across 8.39 sq km in Maharashtra and Dholera Special Investment Region in Gujrat covering the activation area of 22.5 sq. km   in ...

News On the last day of his three-day tour of the Northeast, Dr Jitendra Singh held a detailed meeting with Chief Minister of Manipur, Okram Ibobi Singh and senior officers of the State administration in Imphal today. Later addressing media persons Dr Jitendra Singh said the 400 KW power project ...

News The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr. Jitendra Singh announced Rs 325 crore worth projects for Northeast, out of which Rs 200 crore will be meant for projects in the State of Assam and Rs. 125 crore for “Organic ...

News The government has approved 17 solar parks and plans to auction 15,877 MW of solar generating capacity this year. They are also considering dollar tariffs in some cases to encourage foreign investment, power minister Piyush Goyal said. The government aims to set up 25 solar parks of about 100 ...

News Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari today announced that the state will get roads worth Rs 50,000 crore and the work will be started this year itself. The Union Minister also said that a water-port will be constructed along the Ganga in Patna to connect it ...

News A programme for payment of MGNREGS wages through mobile phones of the beneficiaries was launched at Rampa gram panchayat in Odisha’s Ganjam district. The wages were paid to 360 beneficiaries on Friday through a unique mobile money transfer service called m-pesa with joint effort by telecom major Vodafone and ...

News With a view to encourage participation of Private sector in building the Transmission capacity in India, Govt. of India had notified 14 power transmission schemes worth Rs. 33,900 crore during 2014-15. Nine schemes worth Rs. 12,272 crore schemes were notified in July 2014 and further 5 more transmission schemes ...