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Mumbai: The Water & Renewable Energy Business of L&T Construction, a leading player in the water infrastructure and renewable energy sector in India, has secured new orders worth Rs. 1283 crore in July and August 2014. The Water Supply & Distribution Business along with its joint venture partner NCC Limited, …
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Gujarat demands Rs.1200 crores for Lokayukta
New Delhi : Gujarat Finance Minister Shri Saurabhbhai Patel yesterday called on Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley and urged him to consider Desert Development Programme (DDP) area at par with Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP) under Accelerated Irrigation benefit Programme (AIBP) Scheme. He requested that Government of India should …
Read More »Vibrant Gujarat Global Trade Show 2015 will feature power pavillion
New Delhi: Gujarat Industries Minister Shri Saurabhbhai Patel today urged the Union Power and Coal Minister Shri Piyush Goyal to direct the concerned authorities to evolve a mechanism for allowing Gujarat DISCOMS to entitle for Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) and sale of solar RE certificates. Shri Patel said that Gujarat is …
Read More »Portal to market MSME products demanded
New Delhi: Gujarat Industries Minister Shri Saurabhbhai Patel today strongly demanded that banks should be directed to lend money to MSMEs without Collateral security up to the loan amount of Rs 1 crore. He also urged the Central Government to direct banks to lend the loan at 8 per cent …
Read More »World class saffron park to be set up in India
Pulwama: Shri Radha Mohan Singh, Union Agriculture Minister laid the foundation stone for the Saffron Park Project at Pampore Pulwama in J&K today. The foundation stone ceremony was attended by Shri Ghulam Hassan Mir, Minister for Agriculture, J&K, Shri Nazir Ahmad Khan Gurezi, Minister of State for Agriculture, J&K, Shri …
Read More »Japanese company starts sanitaryware plant in India
Halol(Gujarat): With the provision of Rs 100cr to encourage small and medium enterprises-MSME across the state, Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today assured to implement Laghu Udyog Protsahan Yojana (small industries’ encouragement scheme). She was inaugurating a sanitary ware plant of Toto India Industries Pvt. Ltd at Halol in Panchamahal. …
Read More »India is among top 5 countries producing highest wind energy
Ahmedabad: India is the only county I have seen that worship rivers. In India we worship Sun, Trees and Water. Worshiping nature has been part of our culture and is the great source of sustainable energy said Dr. Sreenivasa Murthy at the Seminar organized by GTU’s Post Graduate Research Centre …
Read More »India to open the Defence manufacturing for foreign funds
New Delhi: Keeping the massive defence preparedness in mind, Defence Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has appealed to the defence scientists and technologists of DRDO to work in right earnest to turn the organisation into a hub for defence manufacturing. The Defence Minister was speaking at the Annual DRDO Awards function …
Read More »Mentha oil futures trading: A positive integration with physical markets
Ahmedabad: A study conducted on futures trading by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi has concluded that the use of commodity exchanges to source material for industries in the food and pharma sector that use mentha oil has helped …
Read More »New Institution to replace the Planning Commission of India
New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has invited ideas from people on what shape the new institution to replace the Planning Commission can take. A special open forum has been created on the website mygov.nic.in for suggestions on the new institution. “We envision the proposed Institution as one …
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