Infrastructure

In line with Prime Minister’s direction of boosting availability of oxygen to hospitals, the PM CARES Fund has given in-principal approval for allocation of funds for installation of 551 dedicated Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Medical Oxygen Generation Plants inside public health facilities in the country. PM has directed that these plants should be made functional as soon as possible. He said that these plants will serve as a major boost to oxygen availability at the district level.

On Friday, CIL, a state-owned company, announced that it had signed its first ever power purchase agreement with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd. (GUVNL) for the sale of 100 megawatts of solar power.

This is P&G’s only the fifth manufacturing site globally to commission in-house solar plant. Spread over 16,000 square meters and comprising nearly 3,000 panels, the in-house solar plant has a capacity of one Megawatt clean energy production and will reduce the company’s carbon footprint by an estimated 1,030 tons annually.

The high-speed rail will be powered by indigenous electric power, unlike diesel, petrol, or aviation fuel. It is a proven environment-friendly transport option, according to the NHSRCL, responsible for developing and implementing the bullet train project.

French state-controlled energy group EDF has made a binding offer to build six third-generation EPR nuclear reactors at Jaitapur in Maharashtra.

Consequent upon successful commissioning last part capacity of 15 MW of 85 MW Bilhaur Solar PV Project at Bilhaur, UP, the unit is declared to be on Commercial Operation w.e.f. 00:00 Hrs. of 08.04.2021.