Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be laying the foundation stone of the new Parliament building on December 10. The new building would be a four-storey structure with a seating capacity of 1,224 and cost Rs 970 crore. It would replace the existing colonial structure which would be completing hundred years in 2021.
Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari virtually inaugurated and laid foundation stones for 15 National Highways projects in Nagaland today. Chief Minister Shri Nephi Rio, MoS-RTH Gen (Dr) V K Singh, MPs, MLAs, senior officers from Centre and the State were present on the occassion. *These NH Projects has a length of about 266 KM involving cost of about Rs 4127 crore.*
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India today signed a $132.8 million loan to strengthen and modernize the distribution network and improve the quality of power supplied to households, industries, and businesses in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya.
India’s own 5G technology, TSDSI 5Gi, has completed the evaluation phase of ITU’s International Mobile Telecommunications 2020 (IMT-2020) vision and now conforms with the stringent performance requirement, ITU said in a statement
Seventy-two per cent of contracts of the bullet train project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad will be undertaken by domestic firms as part of the railways’ efforts to boost ”Aatmanirbhar Bharat”, Chairman and CEO of the Railway Board V K Yadav said on Friday.
ISA, the first treaty-based international government organization headquartered in India, along with the World Bank has been working on SRMI in Maldives that extends guarantees and technical assistance.
The National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL) on Thursday signed the country’s largest ever government-funded civil contract of nearly Rs 25,000 crore for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project with infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T).
The construction company said they have deployed people on ground to start work.
Indian Railway has launched completely digitized online Human Resource Management System (HRMS). Human Resource Management System (HRMS) is a high thrust project for Indian Railways to leverage improved productivity & employee satisfaction.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday said it has secured a large contract to construct the country’s longest road bridge across river Brahmaputra connecting Dhubri in Assam to Phulbari in Meghalaya.
India on Tuesday unveiled new development initiatives for Afghanistan, including a dam to supply water to Kabul and 150 community projects worth $80 million, even as it called for an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in the war-torn country.
