The $100-billion Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor will kick off land allotments next month. Global investors like Ikea, Kia Motors and China Railway Construction Corp are eyeing acquisitions, reports Economic Times.
Category: ECONOMY & POLICY
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Automobiles to drive Make in India
Girish Shankar, Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises has said that the Government of India aims to make automobiles manufacturing the main driver of the ´Make in India´ initiative, as it expects the passenger vehicles market to reach 9.4 million units by 2026, as highlighted in the Auto Mission Plan (AMP) 2016-26.
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States to get Central support for free power scheme
The Centre will extend financial support to states to enable them to offer new electricity connections free of cost to everyone.
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Auto manufacturing will be main driver of ‘Make in India’ initiative
Girish Shankar, Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises has said that the Government of India aims to make automobiles manufacturing the main driver of ‘Make in India’ initiative, as it expects the passenger vehicles market to reach 9.4 million units by 2026, as highlighted in the Auto Mission Plan (AMP) 2016-26.
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Government begins review of ´Make in India´ targets
Twenty months after the launch of the Make in India campaign, the government has begun assessing the impact of PM Narendra Modi´s flagship programme and is looking to even tweak some of the elements.
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AP plans new industrial corridor
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has confirmed that the state government is planning to set up an industrial corridor in the district, covering the Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS)
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Bihar gets its first SCADA-DMS Project Control Centre
The SCADA-DMS Project for Patna city undertaken by Schneider Electric (SE) has been inaugurated by Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister, Bihar. The SCADA-DMS Project is undertaking power monitoring, control and modernisation of the Patna electric distribution network.
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9,653 villages electrified till date under DDUGJY
A total of 327 villages have been electrified across the country from 1st to 7th August 2016 under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY). Out of these electrified villages, seven villages belong to Arunachal Pradesh, 12 to Assam, 10 to Bihar, four to Chhattisgarh, 68 to Jharkhand, four to Madhya Pradesh, 11 to Manipur, 136 to Meghalaya, eight to Nagaland, 24 to Odisha, six to Rajasthan, two to Tripura, 31 to Uttar Pradesh and one each to Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka
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Swachh Survekshan of 500 cities launched
Minister of Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu has launched ‘Swachh Suvekshan-2017’ to assess and rank 500 cities and towns based on levels of sanitation and efforts made by respective urban local bodies and also to capture the progress towards achieving ‘Open Defecation Free’ status.
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Rs.16,641 cr investment in affordable housing
The Central government has approved an additional investment of Rs.16,641 crore for affordable housing for construction of 2,44,267 houses for urban poor under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) during the first four months of this financial year.