The MoRTH has proposed an enhancement of the National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI) powers by enabling the authority to approve projects with a construction cost of more than Rs 100 billion for ensuring speedy […]
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved Phase I of the Bharatmala programme. Under the programme, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) plans to start construction works worth Rs 8 trillion […]
The Railway Board has formulated a new policy forbidding the MoR from issuing tenders for the commencement of work on any new railway project without completing the land acquisition or providing a written assurance from […]
IR plans to spend around Rs 30 billion in building smart yards capable of providing mechanised maintenance and repair of rakes. As per the proposal, 40 of the 100 yards owned by IR will be […]
The JV of IR and the Chhattisgarh government – Chhattisgarh Railway Corporation Limited – has decided to build two fully electrified rail corridors — the 294 km Katghora-Dongargarh corridor worth Rs 48.2 billion and the […]
The Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) is likely to provide financial assistance of about Rs 300 billion to IR for electrifying its remaining network spanning 33,000 km by 2020-21. As per plans, the funds will […]
The MoR has floated a global tender for procuring 700,000 tonnes of rails worth Rs 35 billion. This is the first time the ministry has sought overseas rails to meet the shortfall in supply by […]
The central government has launched a new cross-border train between India and Bangladesh, the Kolkata-Khulna Bandhan Express, while also inaugurating two bridges – the second Bhairab bridge and the Titas bridge in Bangladesh – and […]
The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), under the Ministry of Finance, has granted infrastructure status to the Railway Station Redevelopment Programme. The proposal was submitted by the Ministry of Railways (MoR) with the view to […]
Mahindra Susten Private Limited, a part of the Mahindra & Mahindra Group, will set up the country‘s first utility-scale energy storage project in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The solar-powered project will have a capacity of […]
ITI Limited has quoted the lowest bid of Rs 2,503 per unit in the reverse auction conducted by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) for 5 million smart meters. The second and third lowest bidders were […]
Reliance Infrastructure Limited (RInfra) has secured an EPC contract for Units 3 and 4 of 1,000 MW each of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu. RInfra emerged as the lowest bidder with […]
The Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) has notified a hike of 9.33 per cent in retail supply tariffs for 2017-18. The consolidated revenue gap (deficit) of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) was approved […]
The Union government is planning to introduce the Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in the winter session of Parliament. The proposed bill seeks to introduce competition in the distribution segment by giving an option to […]
BHEL has secured a Rs 204 billion engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order from Telangana State Power Generation Corporation Limited (TSGENCO) for the 4,000 MW Yadadri supercritical power project. The order entails the supply of […]
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited has completed and charged the 220 kV Leh-Khalsti line section of the 220 kV Alusteng (Srinagar)-Leh transmission line, along with 220/66 kV gas-insulated switchgear substations in Leh and Khalsti […]
NTPC Limited has shut down the 500 MW Unit 6 of its Unchahar coal-fired plant in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, after a boiler explosion on November 1, 2017, which affected over 100 people. The unit […]
Phase I of the ro-ro ferry service between Ghogha in Saurashtra and Dahej in south Gujarat was inaugurated on October 22, 2017. The ro-ro service has been designed and developed by Essar Ports Limited and […]
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) has awarded the contract for the construction of a new ship repair facility at the Cochin Port Trust to Simplex Infrastructures Limited. The contract value is Rs 6.1 billion. The new […]
As of October 31, 2017, the Indian shipping industry has a fleet of 1,359 vessels of 12.23 million gross tonnage (GT) and 18.59 million deadweight tonnage (DWT). Of the total vessels, 922 are coastal vessels […]
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