Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities
NHPC intends to become the world’s biggest floating solar power company and will hold the record for a very long time. The company proposes to build 2,850 MW floating solar power plants on various reservoirs of the country.
Indian space tech startup company, Vestaspace Technology, is planning to launch a constellation of over 35 satellites across India in a bid to build 5G network connections and IoT functionalities across various industries.
India has moved ahead with threading-the-needle for an ambitious global electricity grid, with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on Tuesday calling for bids to roll-out the “One Sun One World One Grid” (OSOWOG) plan.
The Central government is coming up with an advanced version of government procurement platform GeM. The new government procurement platform portal GeM will be more dynamic, transformational and vibrant by adding advanced features such as powerful search engine, revamped brand and product approval process and faster creation of categories for goods and services through tender analysis.
In a mega boost for Telangana’s vaccine industry, the Centre has approved the setting up of a regional testing laboratory for vaccines in Hyderabad. This key announcement was made by Telangana IT and industries minister KT Rama Rao at the inaugural of TOI’s six-day virtual conclave — ‘Reboot Telangana – Making Telangana Future Positive’, on Monday.
Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari today inaugurated the breakthrough event of Chamba Tunnel under Chardham Pariyojana through video conference mode. Border Roads Organisation (BRO) achieved this major milestone by digging up a 440 m long Tunnel below the busy Chamba town on Rishikesh-Dharasu road Highway (NH 94).
Power Finance Corporation (PFC), the central PSU under Ministry of Power and India’s leading NBFC, today entered into an agreement with Narmada Basin Projects Company Ltd. (NBPCL), a wholly-owned company of Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, to fund projects worth Rs.22,000 crore for 225 MW hydro-electric projects & multipurpose projects in the State of Madhya Pradesh.
India will have an installed hydropower generation capacity of 70,000 megawatt (MW) by 2030, Aniruddha Kumar, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said last week in a webinar organised by industry body ASSOCHAM.
The company will supply 38 of its 2.7-132 wind turbines, for low wind speed conditions, for the Rajkot and Khambaliya projects being developed by Powerica.
After launching its first high capacity parcel van on the Linke Hofmann Busch platform in January this year, the Indian Railways has manufactured 12 more of the specially designed parcel vans to ensure smooth supply of essential goods during the lockdown.
