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As part of the decision, the government extended the deadline for completion of roads and bridges in plain areas, along with roads in hilly areas, till March 2028. For bridges in hilly regions, the completion timeline has been stretched further till March 2029. The Cabinet also cleared the way for works sanctioned before March 31, 2025 but still unawarded to be taken up for tendering and execution.
A major share of the scheme’s strategic weight falls on the North East and the Himalayan frontier regions, where terrain, climate stress, cross-border river systems and infrastructure gaps make water planning particularly complex.
As part of this roadmap, Renault plans to launch seven vehicles in India by the end of the decade, spanning internal combustion, hybrid and battery-electric models
MoSPI said the system now evaluates infrastructure through multiple lenses including access, quality, utilisation, affordability, and fiscal cost and revenue use. While the ministry has long monitored 11 key sectors through 28 sub-indicators, the new dashboard currently carries 116 indicators across six visible sub-sectors: civil aviation, roads, power, ports-shipping-waterways, telecommunications, and railways.
The depot’s system is built around phytoremediation, an eco-friendly process in which plants and associated biological activity help remove or reduce contaminants from water. At Kankaria, this natural treatment is combined with a multi-stage purification chain that includes wetland-based cleansing, followed by carbon filtration, sand filtration, and ultraviolet disinfection before the water is reused for operational purposes.
The latest numbers also show that the ecosystem is becoming broader and more inclusive. More than 1.07 lakh recognised startups now have at least one woman director or partner, accounting for roughly 48 percent of the total.
That distinction matters. India already entered the Vande Bharat sleeper era in January 2026 with the first commercial service on the Howrah–Kamakhya route, and official railway releases say the new sleeper format carried 1.21 lakh passengers across 119 trips in its first three months, with occupancy above 100 percent.
Plant cell fermentation is a biotechnology process in which living plant cells are grown in a controlled bioreactor environment to produce useful compounds such as phytochemicals, herbal biomass, and bioactive extracts with greater consistency and year-round reliability.
The launch is also significant because it builds on VinFast’s local manufacturing base in Tamil Nadu. The company inaugurated its EV assembly plant at SIPCOT Industrial Park, Thoothukudi, in August 2025, describing it as its first facility outside Vietnam.
The biggest structural shift has come from electrification. As of March 2026, 99.6% of India’s broad-gauge network had been electrified, with 69,873 route km electrified out of 70,142 route km, up sharply from 21,801 route km in 2014.
