Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu asked all PSUs under the ministry to undertake more rail projects, while ensuring best practices in tendering process and transparency in their functioning.
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The government has decided to ease norms for releasing viability gap funding (VGF) under a scheme for setting up 1,000-MW grid-connected solar projects by central PSUs and other government organisations.
MSTC issues dividend; declares bonus
The Union Minister of Steel & Mines Narendra Singh Tomar was handed over the dividend cheque for the financial year 2014-15 for an amount of Rs 16.37 crore by SK Tripathi, CMD, MSTC.
8,000 flats for East Delhi in Smart Cities Project
The east side of the city is all set to get smart. Starting early next year, two new infrastructure projects offering 8,000 flats are coming up in Karkardooma and Trilokpuri.
Rs.8.5 lakh crore plan is for decongestion of network
Despite having the largest rail network in Asia, Indian Railways has not been able to make much progress. The reasons for its dismal growth are known. Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has ambitious plans of expansion and capacity building. In this regard, he says that in the high density routes, there has been considerable underinvestment, resulting in congestion.
Piping hot
During the Eleventh Plan period (2007-2012), domestic players exceeded the planned capital expenditure outlay. They invested Rs 2,751.6 billion, 120 per cent of the planned target of Rs 2,289.9 billion.
Budget 2015: The chinks and the missing links
Budget 2015 echoes the need to foster the infrastructure ecosystem and outlines the policies and reforms which are expected to revive the growth of infrastructure which has remained tepid.
Ease of doing business in India has assumed priority
Generally, projects that are bankable do not face problems in obtaining financing. Of course, there are issues relating to the sector exposure, promoter commitments, etc. But these are exogenous to issues of bankability and will need to be dealt with separately at a macro level.
Telangana for early completion of power projects
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has sought the completion of power projects being taken up by State power generation corporation (Telangana Genco) within a fixed time-frame.
Revamping Public Sector Units
Public Sector Units (PSUs) in India have been amassing losses, both at the Central and State levelù79 State-run companies had an accumulated loss of Rs 55,656 crore in 2012-13; while at the same time, investment in these companies is approximately Rs. 1.57 lakh crore.






