Infrastructure

The companies, coordinated by Dubai-based Emaar Group, plan to invest up to $5 billion in mega food parks in various Indian cities and up to $2 billion in contract farming, sourcing of agro commodities and related infrastructure, according to Piyush Goyal, India’s Minister of Railways and Minister of Commerce and Industry.

The Indian Railways has completed the construction of the giant four-lane cable-stayed railway overbridge (RoB) at Burdwan Junction in West Bengal. The RoB, considered to be the second largest in the country will be inaugurated by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.

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Asserting Indian Railways’ ‘Make-in-India’ approach, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has recently said that India is “one amongst only 7 countries in the world which make their own train sets”.

Khandu emphasized that connectivity is the only bottleneck for a state which is rich in potential. He sought special attention of the Ministry in providing optimum railway connectivity in the state.

It will assist airport managers in developing viable strategies to maintain the pavements in a serviceable condition over a given period and quantify information on maintaining a pavement network at an acceptable level of service. It will also optimise pavement-related expenditure.

In his statement at the 63rd General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) here, Vyas said that India’s Kaiga Generating Station (KGS-1) has set a new world record of continuous operation for 962 days on December 31, 2018, while working at 99.3 per cent plant load factor.