Leaders of Indian cement industry brought together on single platform The 8th Indian Cement Review Conference and 13th Cement Expo held in Hyderabad on 24th February, 2023 brought the thought leaders of Indian cement industry on a single platform to discuss the efforts towards sustainability and decarbonisation, with a laser focus on C.A.S.E. cost-efficiency, automation,...
Category: ECONOMY & POLICY
Post
Post
How the ā¹10 trillion capex will power rail, road & urban infra
Pratap Padode, Founder, FIRST Construction Council decodes what the finance minister has planned for infrastructure and development. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman continued the thrust on infrastructure as she announced a capital expenditure outlay of ā¹10 trillion for the financial year 2023-24. This would be a 33% increase from the CAPEX allocation announced in the previous...
Post
Augmenting the Indian Economy From US$ 3 to 30 Trillion
Indiaās economy has seen a sharp rebound, writes Bharat Joshi, ACTL Indiaās economy has seen a sharp rebound after the first-two waves of the pandemic and as per the projections made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), India is expected to be among the fastest growing major economies in the world in 2021 and 2022,...
Post
A Perceptional Shift in the Bureaucratic Way of Doing Business
New projects will boost investors, writes Amitava Chatterjee, SBI CAP Banks have largest exposure to the power and road sectors amongst the infrastructure sector. Further, presence of projects under NIP and Gati Shakti program will substantially boost the confidence of investors to such an extent that it may attract participation from the private banks and...
Post
A Goal to Achieve Synchronised Development
Plans & applications to be effective, feels Sandeep Upadhyay, Centrum PM Gati Shakti is a very relevant initiative taken by the Government and is expected to effectively address some of the key challenges faced in the infrastructural development. While it may take some to evolve, but I am hopeful the roll out plan and its...
Post
A Game-Changer for Indiaās Infrastructure
A powerful tool if made open to the public, writes Elias George, KPMG Gati Shakti NMP will be an even more powerful tool once it is made open access to the public, which will facilitate crowd-sourced suggestions, corrections, and iterations, as well as enabling fairer, more democratic, and more accurate assessments of the environmental and...
Post
The Industry Responds!
For the fourth time in a row, to combat inflation, RBI’s monetary policy panel hiked the repo rate and interest rates by 35 basis points to 6.25 per cent. For the fourth time in a row, to combat inflation, RBI’s monetary policy panel hiked the repo rate and interest rates by 35 basis points to...
Post
Bostik Unveils Two New Tape and Label Adhesives in India
The move is seen as the companyās endeavour to bolster the manufacturing industry and support the shift towards a circular economy. Bostik, a leading global adhesive specialist for industrial, construction and consumer markets, has launched two new innovative products for the tape and label market in India. The first is Bostik HM2060, a single solution...
Post
ACEās Sorab Agarwal is Equipment India Person of the Year 2022 at 8th India Construction Festival
Besides, the 10th Equipment India Awards 2022 presented 18 awards to construction equipment companies Sorab Agarwal, Executive Director, Action Construction Equipment (ACE), was recognised as the Person of the Year 2022 at the 10th Equipment India Awards 2022 for his remarkable achievements over the yearsBesides, the 10th Equipment India Awards 2022 presented 18 awards to construction equipment...
Post
3i EXPO & Conference gets a rousing response from the manufacturing industry; IPF presents awards to 19 SMEs from across India
3i EXPO & Conference – hosted by Industrial Products Finder (IPF) from May 20-21, 2022 in Mumbai – received an arousing response from the Indian manufacturing sectors with senior representatives from some of the leading companies like Emerson, Godrej & Boyce, Aditya Birla Group, Reliance Industries, Mitsubishi Electric, etc visiting the event. Mr Sanjay Bhatia,...