The government is planning to take the National Fibre Optic Network to 250,000 village panchayats. Overall there are 650,000 villages, the last-mile connectivity being the ultimate challenge. We have suggested the White-Fi technology, which basically uses the unused TV spectrum and enables various kinds of devices to be connected to the Internet.
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We are not asset owners. We are not bankers. We are operators
Formerly known as Vivendi Environment, the France-based transnational firm Veolia Environment is active in water, waste solutions and energy services businesses. Founded in 1853, it is present in around fifty countries.
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Inter-modality is one of the key components of our approach
The cooperation between IR and French Railways is on two fronts currently. One is the semi high-speed passenger train service between Delhi and Chandigarh. The second is the renovation study of two stations also between Delhi and Chandigarh - the stations at Ambala and Ludhiana.
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Engineers’ edge
He pointed to the church he probably attended every Sunday as a boy, growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania in the US. His fingers moved across the screen of his mobile phone, as he flicked over the live images one after the other, pointing out a few more landmarks from his home-town.
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Pawan Hans to tie up with Airbus for helicopter MRO
Pawan Hans will tie up with Airbus to develop a MRO unit at its Juhu base. 'We are in discussions with Airbus.
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Beating the clock
The road section DBL worked upon was basically one part of the full section of 150 km. The authorities floated open a tender for this 150 km stretch of road in three segments - km 0 to 43, km 43 to 93 and km 99 to 150 at the same time, out of which we received the stretch between km 43 to 93.
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The banking industry is facing its sachet moment
Telecommunication companies only have payment licenses so they can only take deposits. They can´t lend. What´s happening in banking the world over - and I don´t think India is going to be an exception - is that banking services are being unbundled
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About 1.3 per cent of land in India gets converted into wasteland every year
We are a company that manages 300,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day. Unlike in developed countries where people segregate their wet waste from dry waste, in India, we put it all together. If you separate this waste, it can be recycled.
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Hi-tech in infra
India has only recently begun to focus on the growth of its infrastructure. There is still a long way to go in adopting the latest and best technologies for their design, construction and management.
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In this regime, roads have taken a quantum leap
The government is taking only the EPC cost as the DPR cost. They are not adding other things like interest on annuity or the interest difference when we do the financing of the project.