The first 100 days of the Modi government have been encouraging. Now the Centre is firmly moving to mission mode. There´s much that the infrastructure sector can look forward to in the days to come. Let´s look at the various initiatives that the government plans to unroll.
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Racks of investment
At present, India is not yet ready with the concept of third party involvement for building up rail infrastructure for coal linkages. Now with the positivity which the present government has got along, investors are optimistic about fast-track solutions for coal linkage issues.
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FDI Ultimate Game Changer
Though investment in infrastructure is expected to touch $1,025 billion in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-17), many hurdles are choking investment inflows despite the government´s overdrive to attract funds. The government´s recent decision to open up the railway sector to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
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The Water Route
Coastal shipping and inland waterways transportation (IWT), the two significant modes of domestic water transportation, both provide fuel and cost savings over road and rail transport. Water as a mode of transportation holds significant importance in an economy
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CIL misses output target again
Coal India produced only 34.54 million tonne of coal in August, missing the target for a fourth month, even as acute fuel shortages continue to hit power generation. The target for August was 35.13 million tonne (mt).
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Mysore-Kozhikode power line gets nod
Despite protests from environmentalists, the Karnataka state government has decided to go ahead with drawing of a 400 kV power line from My- sore to Kozhikode via Kodagu, to evacuate power from Kaiga nuclear plant, near Karwar.
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Telangana turns to solar power
The Telangana government is placing its bets on the sun to help it tide over the energy crisis.
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L&T bags Rs 1,832 crore contracts
Larsen & Toubro has bagged contracts worth Rs 1,832 crore from various business segments since July.
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Rays Power Experts bags turnkey order
Rays Power Experts has acquired a turnkey order of a 45 MW solar EPC project.
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Vikram Solar wins contract
Vikram Solar won a contract to build Indias first floating solar power plant on a lake in Eastern India. The 15 kW pilot plant will be constructed by December 2014