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.
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The Order Book Chase
Total order backlog of the engineering and construction firms was Rs.8.1 trillion at the end of FY18. Of the whole order backlog, almost 62 per cent was contributed by the construction companies, followed by 24 per cent of capital goods companies catering to the energy industry.
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81 investment projects worth Rs 600 billion launched by PM in Uttar Pradesh
At a mega ground-breaking event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 81 investment projects worth Rs 600 million for Uttar Pradesh. With a potential of generating 200,000 new jobs, these projects are expected to boost the stateÂ’s industrialisation.
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India plans to make Chabahar Port operational by 2019
According to a government statement, India will make sure that Chabahar Port in Iran becomes operational by 2019.
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“CLSS is the most attractive schemes in PMAY-U”
Sitting in his sea-facing room, Durga Shankar Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs MoHUA
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We will require 80,000 direct and 1.25 lakh indirect skilled workforce
For instance, out of the 111 identified National Waterways, 106 were conceived in 2016 alone. An assertive Nutan Guha Biswas, Chairperson, Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is confident that the statutory agency will continue to exceed its performance in 2018.
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Integrated water management key to avert water crisis
India is on the verge of water crisis today. The crisis is twofold: major losses in potable water supply and inadequate sewage treatment facilities across the country.
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We need global capital for India’s infrastructure projects
Until recently, we used to talk about the cost of funds being too high and, as you are aware, some infrastructure projects have a long gestation period. There is a period of construction and then there are cost overruns and delays.
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India-Israel signs MoUs worth over US$ 4.3 billion
To revitalise and steer Indo- Israel economic and investment relations, the first formal meeting of India-Israel CEOs forum was organized on July 6, 2017 in Tel-Aviv coinciding with the visit of Narendra Modi, HonÂ’ble Prime Minister of India to Israel.
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NHAI working on widening NH-21
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the four laning of Pandoh Bypass to Takoli' section of National Highway (NH)-21 in Himachal Pradesh. This is a sub project of the National Highways Authority of IndiaÂ’s larger project for four laning of NH-21 from Kiratpur in Punjab to Manali in Himachal Pradesh.