The big elephant in the room affecting the future of roof-top solar in India is and has been government policy. Frequent changes in state government policy have made things difficult for both consumers and developers. By ANIMESH DAMANI

Together with technology, people and credible data, APM 4.0 is increasingly becoming central to the success of industrial and infrastructure firms.

With the rise of the work-from-home (WFH) trend, prospective homebuyers will see sense in shifting to city peripheries.

With ambitious plans for road construction, it is necessary to build a robust system to execute construction of durable roads at a quick pace. INFRASTRUCTRE TODAY, in a quest to dig out more information on road building and management, brings its readers the latest technologies on a platter.

In an exclusive, PP Chaudhary, Minister of State, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, says that the Centre is planning three IT and electronics regions, which will create direct employment opportunities for 12 lakh youths.

Engineers India has bagged orders from HPCL for execution of the Vizag Refinery Modernisation Project (VRMP). EIL will execute the project contract under two separate contracts, PMC Services for major Process Units and packages under U&O and Execution of U&O and PRU Revamp on Open Book Estimate (OBE) Basis.

Make in India (MI) is not a government programme, beyond the terms of facilitation that any Union government can provide to boost industrial growth (in the manufacturing sector). This has been done through an invitation of policy changes to create interest and investment to meet the inevitable growth trajectory in business processes.

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has revised its gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for FY17 upwards to 7.8 per cent from its earlier forecast of 7.7 per cent. The upward revision has been prompted by the progress of monsoon and the sowing of kharif crops so far. With the exception of the East and Northeast, the rainfall in other regions of the country has been more than the long period average.

Being one of the leading states in implementing schemes backed by the Centre, Rajasthan is always in the forefront, whether it is for energy efficiency or municipal reforms.