With Vibrant Gujarat scheduled next year, the government is going all guns blazing to make this summit one of the mega events of the country.

INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY spoke to the then interim Finance Minister on the sidelines of AIIB Annual General Meeting in a length over various issues, especially funding for infrastructure.

For the benefit of the urban poor under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has approved the construction of 626,488 more affordable houses.

During the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Summit (VGS), the Gujarat Government and USA’s Colorado province will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) where the two parties will establish solar parks.

While the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has approved for 24x7 operations at the Surat airport from October 28, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has given a nod to the security clearance of the existing terminal building for commencement of international operations.

A smart city is not automatically an equitable city unless its leaders take care to make it so. Some critics assert that the entire push to make cities smart is mainly about making life more convenient for the affluent.

Greenfield Dholera industrial city is targeting industries such as defence and aero, heavy engineering, auto and auto ancillaries, general manufacturing, pharma and biotechnology, electronics industries, IT and ITES, and agro and food processing. These industries are expected to create around one million job opportunities.

BEST will be replacing 0.3 million electricity metre of low-end residential consumers and 0.1 million high-end users with hi-tech smart metres with an estimated cost of Rs 2.38 billion.

30 battery operated electric buses and 18 bus charging stations were approved by the civic transport wing committee. In order to be financed under the Central Government’s Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric (and Hybrid) Vehicles in India (FAME- 1) scheme, Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport had sent a proposal to the Department of Heavy Industry for the project.