Projects

Roof-top solar to get another US$625m. The World Bank is providing US$100 million for development of internal infrastructure of solar parks planned by Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd (IREDA) of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy. The loan for...

DMIC receives Rs.499.86 crore funding. DMIC: work in progress. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has given an update on the industrial corridors being built in the country, with funding status to date. The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is...

Call for Govt, PPP, investors and banks join forces. Public private partnership (PPP) is the need of the hour given the budgetary constraints of the government, said Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping. It was imperative that...

UP urged to promote ethanol-fuel. ASSOCHAM calls for biofuel for UP's public transportation sector. Apex industry body ASSOCHAM has urged the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath to allow all state-run buses to move on from oil-based fuel (petrol, diesel)...

Focus on R&D and Technologies. Tata manufactured Shaurya. India must be self-reliant in defence production and it is critical that private industry undertake defence technologies and manufacturing by understanding Indian Army’s requirements, said Lt-Gen. Sarath Chand, Vice Chief of Army...

Feasibility done on 87 ROBs. India is to seek private sector investment and external borrowing by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to fund about Rs.6.92 lakh crore for the development of National Highways during the next five years. The...

NHAI given in-principle approval. A large area of private and forest land will be required for the construction of National Highways along the coastline of Odisha, a feasibility study on which is due this month (July 2017). A feasibility report...

18 ferries to improve navigation along six cities. Consultants are working on Detailed Project Report (DPR) for 18 ferries to be built at Varanasi, Patna, Munger, Bhagalpur, Kolkata and Haldia as part of the National Waterway 1 (NW-1). The ferries...

Bid submission by 3 Aug 2017. Construction of Permanent Campus for Indian Institute of Management Rohtak at Sunaria Village, Rohtak, (SH- Partition works for Academic Buildings. As per tender Document. Tender Fee: Rs.500;EMD:Rs.59,000. Bid Submission by: 3 Aug 2017 02:00...

Railways looking for cutting-edge technology. The National Institute for Transforming India, NITI Aayog, has approved Rs.18,000 crore investment for high-speed rail projects for Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata, Union Minister for Railways, Suresh Prabhu has told ASSOCHAM. “We are working on Gatiman...