Bangalore: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs 236.18 crore as loan assistance to the government of Karnataka for building 82 minor irrigation structures, 189 rural roads and 42 rural bridges in different districts. These projects have been sanctioned under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF XVIII) by the Project Sanctioning Committee in its meeting earlier this month, S N A Jinnah, Chief General Manager,...
10:10 AM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh attacked the states for the crumbling health infrastructure in the country, saying even Kenya has lower infant mortality rate than India. Ramesh's statement on the state of health infrastructure assumes significance as public health and sanitation; hospitals and dispensaries come under the State List (Constitution Seventh Schedule, Article 246, List II). He also targeted the states for not decentralising power, even though some...
12:39 PM, Nov 16, 2012
London: India will spend $ 1 trillion on infrastructure development in the country over the next five years and 40 per cent of it will come from the private sector, Kamal Nath, Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs said on Tuesday. "The Cabinet has approved an expenditure of $ one trillion in the next five years on Infrastructure Development and 40 per cent would come from private sector,"...
09:16 PM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi may claim to be a world-class city but it lacks basic disabled-friendly infrastructure, a study has found. The study, conducted in some of the city's busiest places like Connaught Place, Lodhi Road, Sarai Kale Khan and Nehru Place during past one month by an NGO, found that street infrastructure was missing, making it difficult for disabled and elderly people to navigate. During the study, NGO Samarthyam sent...
11:30 AM, Nov 04, 2012
Mumbai: The CBI on Friday conducted searches at the offices of IRB Infrastructure Developers Limited, in connection with the January 2010 murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty. IRB was, in fact, in news recently over its links with BJP chief Nitin Gadkari. "Searches are being conducted at four premises of IRB in Pune," a senior CBI official said on condition of anonymity without disclosing details. A year before he was...
01:49 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Metro on Saturday said it has rejected an offer by Reliance Infrastructure to quit the showcase Airport Metro Express citing financial non-viability and asserted that the corridor would soon be thrown open to public after due repairs are completed. Delhi Metro Managing Director Mangu Singh admitted that Reliance Infrastructure-led Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL) had sent a notice for terminating the Concession Agreement signed...
02:40 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: India loses more than $40 billion a year - about 4 per cent of the size of the total economy - due to corrosion in infrastructure and industry segments, ONGC CMD Sudhir Vasudeva said on Wednesday. It prompts a need for efforts to minimise the leakages through stainless steel applications, among other steps, he said. "The loss due to corrosion is to the tune of $40 billion every...
04:23 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked state governments to provide educational, sanitation and drinking water infrastructure in the schools including separate toilet facilities for boys and girls, drinking water facilities, sufficient class rooms and the appointment of teaching and no-teaching staff within six months. There are 1,096,064 government schools. Out of these, 624,074 schools have girl toilets and 824,605 schools have common toilets for boys and girls. An apex...
12:54 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Taking note of the poor state of most schools in the country, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre and all the state governments to provide basic infrastructure in all schools within six months. The apex court asked the authorities to ensure that all government and private schools have drinking water and washroom facilities in the next six months. A bench headed by justice KS Radhakrishnan fixed...
11:30 AM, Oct 03, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Less than two weeks remain for the 2012-2013 tourism season to open and one luxury liner has already scheduled a stopover at Vizhinjam, but the infrastructure at the existing tiny port here still leaves much to be desired. Though the Ports Department had announced plans to develop the two wharves here last year, nothing has come off it. Which means, this year too, visiting liners, even the smaller ones,...
02:00 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: Three days before the end of the monsoon session of Parliament, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered cases against five private firms. These companies are Vinni Iron and Steel, Nav Bharat Steel, JLD Yavatmal, JAS infrastructure and power and AMR Iron and Steel. The CBI is also carrying out nationwide raids. CBI raids were on at 30 locations in ten cities including Kolkata, Patna, Hyderabad, Dhanbad,...
11:30 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed FIRs against five companies in connection with coal blocks allocation. The companies include Vinni Iron and Steel, Nav Bharat Steel, JLD Yavatmal, JAS Infrastructure and Power and AMR Iron and Steel. Cases have been registered under cheating, criminal conspiracy against the companies, owners of the companies and unknown officials of the Coal Ministry and state governments. The agency had questioned...
07:55 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: Delays in execution of mega infrastructure projects has seen a massive Rs 52,446 crore jump in their original cost estimates. The cost escalation has gone up by 36 per cent from Rs 1,45,271 crore to Rs 1,97,716 crore as on May 31, 2012, official figures state. The cost overrun pertains to 28 power projects, 36 railway projects and 84 schemes of Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH)....
03:31 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Industrialist Anil Ambani has said his group firm Reliance Infra has shortlisted road projects worth Rs 40,000 crore for bidding, while for cement business it has has applied for mining leases and prospecting licences in various parts of the country. "The company through its special purpose vehicles has been developing 11 road projects with capital outlay of about Rs 12,000 crore of which five projects have commenced generating...
05:32 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Hyderabad: That Niloufer Hospital has inadequate infrastructure is a well-known fact. But how bad is the situation? If one goes by the hospital records, it appears that it cant get any worse. On an average, 350 kids die at the hospital every month. In the last seven months, as many as 2,122 children died in the hospital. In 2011, 3,447 infants breathed their last. The previous year, the number stood...
01:32 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Mumbai: India needs a more cohesive energy policy and stringent grid management to avoid a recurrence of the power outages that hit hundreds of millions of people this week, the chief executive of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd said in an interview. Reliance Infrastructure, India's largest private electric utility, provides power to 30 million people in financial capital Mumbai and political capital New Delhi. CEO Lalit Jalan said he was unsettled when...
05:00 AM, Aug 05, 2012
For the past eight years I've been visiting India every other year and spending several weeks at the height of summer in the paradox called ...
10:20 PM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: Reflecting a slowdown, the growth of eight core sectors slipped to 3.6 per cent in June, weighed down by contraction in natural gas, fertiliser and steel output. The key infrastructure sectors had grown 5.6 per cent in the same month last year. The growth in May too moderated to 4 per cent, from 5.9 per cent in the same month last year. The cumulative expansion of these industries...
07:53 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has ordered a number of works across the State to create or improve sports infrastructure. These schemes would focus on creating world-class sports facilities at all district headquarters, apart from upgradation of existing facilities and the conduct of state-wide sports competitions. Jayalalithaas announcement to this effect, which came a day after the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London, also said two...
12:51 PM, Jul 30, 2012
New Delhi: With a view to giving a push to investments and boost growth, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Friday announced a roadmap for implementation of flagship infrastructure projects which include three airports, two major ports and rail corridors schemes. The ministries concerned will be required to complete the formalities for implementation of the projects in a time-bound manner and will also regularly monitor their progress, said a PMO...
04:40 AM, Jul 28, 2012
