Projects

The Indian agriculture-technology is growing at a rate of 25% year on year and the start-up ecosystem is playing a critical role, bringing innovation and disruption in much-needed areas.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has shared Pre-Budget Memorandum recommendations focusing on providing impetus to Consumption and Investment with Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Finance Ministry’s Revenue Secretary.

The government is committed to promoting the use of additional farm machinery in the coming years to achieve improvement in awareness about diverse utilization of mechanization and credit support so that access to latest technologies is not a constraint.

India needs to reduce the time taken in drafting the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for construction of roads and highways which will not only ensure faster turnaround but will also help in reducing costs.

A Consultative Committee of Parliamentarians were briefed about the high importance accorded by the Government to gas-based economy and Biofuels, setting the pace for them to deliberate on the two topics.

Seven investors have been given extension for completing their Special Economic Zone areas in Andhra Pradesh, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal told the Rajya Sabha 6 Dec 2019.

The Civil Aviation Ministry has invited bids for 6 underserved and 24 unserved airports/airstrips in the North-East states of India.

Most of renewable energy projects in India are being implemented by the private sector developers selected through transparent bidding process, Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy R.K. Singh said in written reply to parliament on 5 Dec 2019.

The Indian industries have been surprised by the Reserve Bank of India’s decision not to further cut repo rate at its MPC meeting on 5 Dec 2019, many pointing out the weakening economy.

CSIR and BHEL have signed an MoU to cooperate, collaborate and pursue industrial application-oriented research programmes and its commercialization in large scale.