Infrastructure

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has emphasized the need to ensure adequate return on investments in infrastructure through properly structured Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) and de-risking of projects.

India is supporting the use of nuclear energy to meet the rising demand and has called for the use of advanced fission reactors, including fast reactors, that reduces radioactive waste.

Three sewage infrastructure projects, costing Rs.425.41 crore, has been completed in Varanasi, a release from the Public Information Bureau said on 8 Nov 2018. 

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), the project Implementing Agency, has completed the first of the three Multi Modal Terminals (MMTs) as a more environment-friendly transport for cargo movement.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given ‘in principle’ approval for strategic disinvestment of 100% Government of India's shares in Dredging Corporation of India Ltd (DCIL) to consortium of four ports namely, Vishakhapatnam Port Trust, Paradeep Port Trust, Jawahar...

The Union Cabinet has approved leasing out of six airports, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangaluru, under Public Private Partnership (PPP) model of development.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation two national highways of 34 km and constructed at a cost of Rs.1,571.95 crore in Veranasi on 12 November 2018.

Power supply-demand project     India and Japan signs a Loan Agreement worth Rs.1,817 crore for the ‘Construction of Turga Pumped Storage (I)’ contributing to the Industrial Development and Living Standard Improvement in the State of West Bengal. The Japanese...

The World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has expressed unflinching and continued support to India’s initiatives on ease of doing business.

The government is exploring the use of new kinds of vehicles like hybrid aeroboats that combine land, water and aviation technology and can run on land, water and air at speeds greater than 80 km per hour.