We´ve chosen to focus on roads and highways development again this month, making it the cover story for two straight issues in a row. Now, that is surely an unusual situation!
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Race against time
Evolution of e-tailing has opened up numerous business opportunities for allied services like warehouse management, 3PL services, and first-mile and last-mile delivery.
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The infrastructure story is waiting to unfold
Infrastructure is the backbone on which the economic and social wellbeing of any country hinges. Though India has emerged as the third largest economy, its GDP growth rate slowed down to less than 5 per cent in FY 13-14, as against a CAGR of 8.4 per cent during 2003 - 2010.
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Focus on skilled manpower | Budget 2013-14
Skill enhancement: Availability of skilled manpower and semi-skilled manpower is becoming a bottleneck in execution of projects.Thus enhancing skills for construction sector would help the GDP growth as well. While this problem is being addressed and does not have an immediate solution, semi-skilled manpower development programmes may be included in schemes like NREGA which should encourage skill-enhancement so that over a period they would be employable by the industry.