Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities
Shripad Naik, Minister of State for Defence, said in a parliamentary reply on 3 July that up until March 2019 the government had issued a total of 439 licences to 264 local companies. This represents an increase over the 379 licences issued to 230 local firms announced in July 2018.
The BRO’s objective is to complete 61 strategic road projects along the northern border with China spread across Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh by December 2022, army sources said.
Discussions are being held for the development of a chip that will include Indian navigation satellite ‘NavIC’ technology in mobile phones.
This marks the completion of the entire 750 km long trunk pipeline section one of PMUG constituting 30 per cent of the initially sanctioned project route. “GAIL’s infrastructure at Gorakhpur is in readiness to commence gas supplies to the upcoming fertiliser plant and the city gas project,” it said in a statement.
Central Electricity Authority, the country is likely to cross the 50 GW installed capacity mark this month if NEEPCO manages to commission its proposed unit 1 and 2 of the Kameng project.
To increase the mobility of the system, Mainline Electric Multiple Units (MEMUs) and Diesel Electric Multiple Units (DEMUs) have been used to replace 141 short distance passenger trains, especially having reversal en route, by in 2018-2019.
According to Government of India data, discoms in India had accumulated losses of approximately Rs. 3.8 lakh crore and had outstanding debt of approximately Rs. 4.3 lakh crore as on March 2015. It’s in this backdrop that, in November 2015, the Narendra Modi-led government introduced the UDAY scheme for financial turnaround of power distribution companies.
Deepak nitrite and its wholly-owned subsidiary Deepak Phenolics has started manufacturing phenol and acetone with the average capacity utilisation of around 80 per cent. After the new plant’s installation, the imports have gone down and 80 percent of nation’s phenol availability is met by the local manufacturer instead of through imports.
The OIL’s call for bids follows state run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’ (ONGC) tender seeking partners for its 64 discovered small and marginal fields to enhance production on Friday.
“As per the memorandum of understanding signed between the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited and Japanese side, in order to promote ‘Make in India’, 06 out of above 24 train sets are presently planned for assembling in India, for which location is planned to be decided by the Japanese supplier,” Goyal said.
