Projects

Submarine plan Parrikar on Submarine Plan. The government is to order Rs.3 lakh crore worth of defence acquisition on cumulative basis by the end of this financial year, having cleared more than Rs2 lakh crore since 2014. Disclosing this, Defence...

Policies boost power investments Singapore's Sembcorp investment in power sector reflects foreign investors' confidence in the Indian market. Favourable government policies have boosted private investments in power generation over the last decade and resulted in significant capacity additions, says Federation...

Waste to Energy The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has received 53 proposals from 22 states with potential to generate 405.3 MW of Waste to Energy plants which are currently under various stages of construction or tendering. Waste to Energy...

NEP on bold announcements The National Energy Policy (NEP) aims to chart the way forward to meet the Government’s bold announcements in the energy domain, Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for the Ministry of Power, Coal, New and...

Wind energy guidelines Wind energy: MNRE issues guidelines. The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued final Guidelines for the development of onshore wind projects on 22 October 2016, said Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power,...

DSF round gets 134-eBids   Pictures: DGH. Oil wells in Indian hydrocarbon basins. Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has received 134 e-Bids for the 34 contract areas under the Discovered Small Fields (DSF) Bid Round 2016 by deadline on 21st...

Housing for All Modi visiting an exhibition on the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin, in Agra. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has formally launched “Housing for All” in rural areas under which the Government proposes to provide an environmentally safe...

Adani's solar project ahead of schedule Adani investing in solar energy. Adani Enterprises Ltd is using top notch technology to set up 100 MW solar plant project which has started commissioning almost six months ahead of schedule in Punjab. The set...

New plants FCIL's Sindri facility.  The Government has approved to revive fertilizer units of the Fertilizer Corporation of India Limited (FCIL)/Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited (HFCL). The companies are setting up new urea plants, each of 1.27 Million Metric Ton (MMT)...

Defence technologies Brig. Gen. (Retd) Mishel Ben-Baruch speaks of cooperation and technology transfer. Israel is willing to cooperation with the Indian in defence sector and is committed for ‘Make in India and Make with India’ in security domain, a market...