In the months to come, India can undoubtedly pick a few lessons from China and with appropriate improvisations lead the way to making policy changes that bring in a radical change in the ease of doing business as well as supplying its domestic needs and international demands. By DR. POORNIMA ADVANI

Minister of State for Steel, Faggan Singh Kulaste has said that the secondary steel sector will play an important role in achieving the 300 million tonne (MT) target of steel capacity by 2030-31, as laid out in the National Steel Policy-2017.

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways & Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Nitin Gadkari on Monday said that the Central Government was aiming at creating core global competencies in India by facilitating the seamless integration of the local automotive industry with the world. In this direction, it was attempting to create an ecosystem to accelerate the uptake of electric vehicles in the country.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced 12 key measures as part of the Central Government’s stimulus to the economy under Aatmanirbhar Bharat 3.0.

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways & Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises (MSME), Nitin Gadkari has urged the country’s construction sector to devise ways to keep costs of government projects low even while leveraging the latest digitalisation technologies.

The Indian engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) projects to defence multinational, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won the bid for a substantial part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) or bullet train corridor.

The Government think-tank NITI Aayog and Quality Council of India (QCI) on Wednesday launched the ‘National Programme and Project Management Policy Framework’ (NPMPF), envisaged to bring radical reforms in the way infrastructure projects are executed in India.

Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways & Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Nitin Gadkari virtually laid the foundation stones of nine national highway projects with a total length of nearly 262 km worth over Rs 27.52 billion in Tripura on Tuesday.

In a significant step to move towards a gas-based economy, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved ‘Natural Gas Marketing Reforms’.