Projects

The 180.5-km project to cost Rs.37,539 crore. The first 56-km of the Delhi-Rewari-Alwar Regional Rapid Transport System (RRTS) will be underground with nine stations starting from Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT) Kashmeri Gate in Delhi to Cyber City in Haryana. The...

Inter-governmental MoU signed for Defence Industry Cooperation. Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) will lead Indian participation in a mega shipping building collaboration with South Korea under a government-to-government Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in New Delhi on 21 April 2017. HAL...

Work is underway on the socio-economic development across three states. Work is underway on a number of sites for the development of National Waterway-1 (NW-1), for which the World Bank has approved US$375 million loan. The loan is capacity augmentation...

India to become second biggest steel player in global market. The Indian steel industry is calling on the government to further improve business climate by lowering taxes and give support in sourcing funding from banks and financial institutions. Rita Singh,...

Tenders for 33 wayside amenities to be floated by June 2017. The developments of Mumbai-Vadodara, Bangalore-Chennai and Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressways are to be sanctioned by June 2017, said The Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari. Tender for...

Capacity expansion underway at two lines. Detail planning for tenders are being done for the third line of 291-km Sonnagar-Patratu railway project which will transport food grain, iron ore, coal, fertilizer, cement and sugar from Ramgarh, Hazaribagh, Latehar, Palamu &...

Project boost cheapest renewable tariff. Delhi Metro to get Rewa Solar power. The 750-MW Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Power Project (UMSPP) and Madhya Pradesh Power Management Company (MPPMC) has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Delhi Metro Railways Corporation...

Different technologies needed industrialization programme Industry veteran Vaswani stresses the need to accelerate the import of technologies. India needs to import a wide range of world class technology for the country’s fast-pace industrialization programmes supported by strong economic growths projected...

India to set up world's first Centre for Advanced Transportation Technology and Systems. In line with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highway’s vision to influence and adopt global innovation into the transportation sector, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed...

Work in progress on strengthening manufacturing sector. Ambassador of Japan to India, Kenji Hiramatsu, calling on Nirmala Sitharaman, in New Delhi, earlier this month.   In a bid to increase the contribution of manufacturing sector to 25% of Gross Domestic...