Projects

Master plan for 12 ports prepared The government has identified 142 port capacity expansion projects in the master plan for implementation over the next 20 years. Estimated cost of these projects is Rs.91,371 crore for capacity creation of 884 million...

Govt urged to provide incentives for insurance IRDAI's Vijayan calls for simplified products. In order to ensure Macro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) continued success, the key imperatives are to ensure ease of doing business, infrastructure upgradation, skilling and ensuring...

DBOT project on offer in Assam   Assam Tourism has 3.33-acre of vacant land for development of resort/tourism lodge at village Bezaltoli Gaon Mouza, Roggagora Revenue Circle in Tinsukia Area. Project cost is estimated Rs.33 crore to Rs.40 crore (US$5.08...

Conclave brainstorm vision of New Railways 2022 Goyal lighting the lamp at a special conclave on Vision for New Railway - New India 2022 in New Delhi on 16 December 2017. The Indian Railways is seeking innovative financing with focus...

Bid submission 17 Jan 2018 Chennai Metro has called tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning and training of Rolling Stock asset management system with automated download and remote monitoring of on-board data for a fleet of 42 train sets....

Shinkansen selected on reliability record Japan's Shinkansen. A Memorandum of Cooperation has been signed between Governments of India and Japan to implement Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor with Japanese technical and financial assistance. The Japanese Government has agreed to provide...

Momentum of infra development must be kept going Jaitley addressing FICCI on 14 Dec 2017. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has outlined the imperative need to complete the task of strengthening the banks through capitalization to enable them to lend to...

Start-ups and SMEs to get opportunities in defence sector Eight projects have almost fructified and were about to be sanctioned while close to another 24 projects were in the process of coming through the Technology Acquisition and Development Fund, Defence...

AIIB hopes to deepen cooperation with India India is central to delivering on the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) mandate to support the sustainable economic development of Asia through investment in infrastructure. In view of this, the AIIB looks...

Guidelines will boost wind power sector   The government has issued Guidelines under Section 63 of the Electricity Act, 2003 providing a framework for procurement of wind power through a transparent process of bidding including standardisation of the process and...