Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities
With coach manufacturing picking up across its factories, Indian Railways has manufactured more LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) coaches in the last two years than it did in the first 17 years since their introduction.
UP emergence as a hub of mobile phone production has also stopped its youths’ exodus to other states for jobs.
“India could learn from the Israel experience, where the government is heavily involved in early funding of promising startups,” Dipanjan Basu, Partner and CFO at Fireside Ventures, told Forbes India prior to the budget.
“India is the fastest highway developer in the whole world” with 27 km of highways being built every day.
“Rail activity in India is set to grow more than any other country, with passenger movements in India reaching 40 per cent of global activity
He said that over 4,000 km of railway tracks were electrified last year, which would increase to 6,000 km this year.
According to a senior official of the ministry of civil aviation, the necessary infrastructure work has almost been completed for Hindon. The necessary clearances have been issued from all concerned authorities including the ministry of defence.
“The central government has made tremendous progress in production of energy in the last five years. Presently, extra one lakh MW power is being produced. It is more than our requirement, hence we are also exporting energy to our neighbouring countries,” he said.
A new KIA Soul Electric Vehicle has been handed over to the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the company expects to enter into a Future Mobility Partnership with the state government.
The bridge is considered to be most strategic for the movement of armed forces and the BSF along the Indo-Pak border, commanding officer Col Aditya Shahi told PTI.
