Pushing Boundaries

June 2018

With the demand for excavators growing in the market, OEMs are introducing new features to further improve the efficiency and productivity of the mac...

Tags: Excavators, OEM, Machines, Swachh Bharat, Rajdeep Mitra, Liugong India, CAGR, Dimitrov Krishnan, Volvo CE India, Rahul Shah, Sumer Group, Mining, Coal, DDUGJY, PMGSY

Hydraulic breaker demand to prevail

May 2018

Excavators with hydraulic breakers are used in urban construction projects, road construction, metro projects, etc. In crowded areas, this is one of ...

Tags: Excavators, Hydraulic breakers, Road construction, Metro projects, Drilling, Blasting, DOZCO, PMGSY, Equipment

NBCC diversifies into highway construction; gets contract to build 50-km four-lane highway in Uttarakhand

April 2018

NBCC (India), the Navratna CPSE under Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, has added yet another aspect to its expanding business by diversifying i...

Tags: Navratna CPSE, NBCC, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, EDCUL, Anup Malik, Harak Singh Rawat, Dr Anoop Kumar Mittal, PMGSY, Jim Corbett National Park, Garhwal, Kumaon Mandals, Navratna CPSE

Budget 2018-19: Infrastructure, Rural Development key

March 2018

Infrastructure development has been one of the top priorities of the Union Budget 2018-19 presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitely in Parliamen...

Tags: Infrastructure development, Union Budget 2018-19, Arun Jaitely, Smart Cities mission, transport infrastructure, MSME sector, Abhijit Gupta, CASE India, PMGSY, Sandeep Singh, Tata Hitachi, Schwing Stetter India, Construction Machinery Co, ELGi Equipments, ZF India

Central Road Fund’s expansion unlikely to affect allocations to the road sector

February 2018

With the remaining portion of the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP) getting subsumed into the new road-development programme (83,000 km i...

Tags: National Highway Development Programme, CRIF, PMGSY, Shubham Jain

Infrastructure Revival to Push CE Growth

January 2018

The infrastructure sector is today undoubtedly one of the strong pillars of the Indian economy and the current Union Government is strongly focused i...

Tags: Infrastructure, Union Government, GST, GDP, ICEMA, Arvind K Garg, PPP, Sagarmala ports, Bharatmala roads, NHAI, NHIPC, AIBP scheme, UDAAN scheme, NHDP, PMGSY

Getting Back on Track

December 2017

GST rate reduction from 28 per cent to 18 per cent has provided a breather to the construction equipment industry. Although 15 per cent of items woul...

Tags: GST, Construction equipment, ICEMA reports, EXCON 2017, Bharatmala Pariyojana, PMGSY, Narendra Modi

Escorts will use this opportunity to launch new products

December 2017

Escorts Construction has planned two new product launches during the exhibition this year. This is in addition to its recently launched products, whi...

Tags: Escorts Construction, Rajinder Raina, Parts & Service, PMGSY works, Cranes, Expressways, Backhoe loader JUNGLI