The Union Ministry of Urban Development has sanctioned another 685 buses for states and union territories (UTs) under JNNURM. The approval was given at a meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee on bus funding and ancillary infrastructure projects under JNNURM in New Delhi recently. A total of 400 buses have been approved for the Union Territory of Chandigarh for the tri-city Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula.
Approval was also given for installation of Intelligent Transport
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States to get 685 more JNNURM buses
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Telecom prospects brighten
Telecom sector now looks stable and seems back on its feet with initial investment proposal of over Rs 11,000 crore received in 2013. While government is hopeful of announcing mergers and acquisitions guidelines in January and a new policy on machine-to-machine communications in first quarter of 2014, in 2013 it was able to implement new licensing regime of Unified Licences, open up telecom sector for foreign investment by raising FDI limit to 100 per cent from 74 per cent.
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Telecom prospects brighten
Telecom sector now looks stable and seems back on its feet with initial investment proposal of over Rs 11,000 crore received in 2013. While government is hopeful of announcing mergers and acquisitions guidelines in January and a new policy on machine-to-machine communications in first quarter of 2014, in 2013 it was able to implement new licensing regime of Unified Licences, open up telecom sector for foreign investment by raising FDI limit to 100 per cent from 74 per cent.
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Reliance Jio plans faster 4G wireless broadband
Reliance Jio Infocomm plans to provide 4G connectivity speed to subscribers that will be 10-12 times faster as compared to 3G networks. At a speed of 49 mbps an user can download a full movie, which is generally of 600 megabyte size, in about two minutes.
The average top speed of 3G network is pegged at 4 mbps. RJIL is the only company in India to have nationwide 4G spectrum. It holds large chunk 20 meghertz in one frequency band known as wireless broadband access (BWA) spectrum.
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MoU signed for mega road project
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Rajasthan state government and the World Bank for road projects that connect 1,056 identified villages with an assistance of Rs 1,200 crore from the World Bank. The state PWD Minister Yunus Khan said notice inviting tenders would be issued soon and work would begin in the next 60 days.
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Reliance Jio plans faster 4G wireless broadband
Reliance Jio Infocomm plans to provide 4G connectivity speed to subscribers that will be 10-12 times faster as compared to 3G networks. At a speed of 49 mbps an user can download a full movie, which is generally of 600 megabyte size, in about two minutes.
The average top speed of 3G network is pegged at 4 mbps. RJIL is the only company in India to have nationwide 4G spectrum. It holds large chunk 20 meghertz in one frequency band known as wireless broadband access (BWA) spectrum.
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UP expects Rs.42,000 cr investment Under the proposed
Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC), the Uttar Pradesh government is expecting Rs 42,000 crore investment into the state. In the state, almost 57 per cent of the EDFC measuring 1,049 km would traverse across 18 districts, bringing a lot of industrial benefits for the state. The government said that the proposed alignment of 1,840 km EDFC, starting from Punjab, traverses UP via Khurja and ends at Dankuni in West Bengal.
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Nod to six-laning of Vadodara-Surat stretch of NH-8
The Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval for six-laning of the Vadodra-Surat section of NH-8 including construction of a new four-lane extra dosed bridge across the Narmada River and two eight-lane flyovers in Gujarat under the NHDP Phase V.
The cost is estimated to be Rs 503.16 crore including Rs 17 crore as the cost of land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation and other pre-construction activities.
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Govt strives to prevent delays in power projects
The Union Government is closely monitoring the power projects under construction to avoid delays, said the Union Minister of State (I/C) of Power Jyotiraditya Scindia. Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is performing the duties of monitoring of the power projects in pursuance of 73 (f) of Electricity Act, 2003. In addition, a Power Project Monitoring Panel (PPMP) has been set up by the Ministry of Power to independently follow up and monitor the progress of the hydro/thermal projects and regula
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Govt strives to prevent delays in power projects
The Union Government is closely monitoring the power projects under construction to avoid delays, said the Union Minister of State (I/C) of Power Jyotiraditya Scindia. Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is performing the duties of monitoring of the power projects in pursuance of 73 (f) of Electricity Act, 2003. In addition, a Power Project Monitoring Panel (PPMP) has been set up by the Ministry of Power to independently follow up and monitor the progress of the hydro/thermal projects and regula