As highway InvITs perform well and numerous digital and technology innovations push the infrastructure sector, Private sector participation in the PPP mode can push for fast-track growth of the Indian economy, says Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways in India. The dream of the Prime Minister is to make the Indian economy $5...
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Technologies Empowering the Right Pace of Road Construction
Road sector is adopting and implementing innovative technologies. The road sector is seeing adoption and implementation of innovative technologies with durable roads being a priority. In order to bear the increasing traffic load, and overcome various challenges, the sector will have to develop new materials, processes and technologies to set the right pace of construction....
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Clawing Back to Action
He is a man of action and is showing the world that he means business. In many firsts in the month that went by, Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented India to the global industry as a nation that is seeking to attract investors with reforms and measures
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Modernisation of Chennai, Kolkata airports on hold
Modernisation of the Chennai and Kolkata airports will be delayed as the airports no longer figure on the list of facilities to be modernised through public-private partnership.
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PM asks SEBI to support fund flow to infrastructure
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) received a request from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to promote infra debt funds (IDFs) in order to boost funding to the infrastructure sector.
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Land records digitisation soon
The Central government is set to infuse some urgency into the digitisation of land records at the first meeting of the National Council of Land Reforms.The council, headed by the Prime Minister, will discuss the recommendations of a committee on state agrarian relations set up by the Rural Development Ministry in 2009.
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PM calls for transparency in awarding projects
In the wake of irregularities in allocation of natural resources and award of infrastructure projects, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for transparency in awarding highway projects to eliminate the possibility of favouritism or Ć¢ā¬Ėcrony capitalism'.