NAREDCO to provide three lakh affordable houses in MMR

March 2018

Taking a step towards in contributing to the ‘Housing for All by 2022’ initiative, the Maharashtra Government and the National Real Estate Developmen...

Tags: NAREDCO, Housing for All by 2022, Urban, MoU, Affordable houses

Tamil Nadu regaining industrial investment momentum

March 2018

According to JLL India research, industrial investments into Tamil Nadu have regained an upward curve despite ongoing political uncertainties in the ...

Tags: JLL India, OEM, Automotive clusters, DIPP, GoI, BRAP, MoU & I, SIPCOT

One Platform For All Smart Cities Solutions

March 2018

With all the glitter and shine, India's newly-found tech hub, Telangana, hosted the country's smartest conclave ever - SMART URBANATION from March 22...

Tags: SMART URBANATION, R Roshan Baig, Government of Karnataka, Smart Cities Council India, Pratap Padode, B Janardhan Reddy, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Crompton, MoU, Wild West Media, Hyderabad International Airport, Swachh Bharat recycling machine, PPP, Gensler, Chicago

Metro Policy 2017

March 2018

The trend of metro rail as an urban transport has gathered momentum ever since Delhi has seen successful implementation of its metro rail project....

Tags: Metro rail, MoUD, Metro Policy 2017, PPP, DBFOT, UMTA, CMP, Urban Transport Fund, VCF, Construction of Works

Can Digital India have a major role to play in the smart cities mission? Find out!

March 2018

'The major support from Digital India to the Smart Cities mission has come in the form of Aadhaar,' says Korath V Mathew, IT and e-Governance Consult...

Tags: Digital India, Smart Cities mission, Korath V Mathew, IT and e-Governance Consultant, LED lights, PPP, Hitech telecom tower, MoUD, Infrastructure, Ministry of IT

Greenfield cities are overcoming and succeeding challenges on the smart run

March 2018

While there is a set of 100 Smart Cities under the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) mission, there is also the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (...

Tags: 100 Smart Cities, MoUD, Department of Commerce, AECOM, Jagdish Salgaonkar, Alkesh Sharma, DMICDC, SPV

Amplus partners with Yes Bank for Strategic Solar Power Tie-up

January 2018

Amplus Energy Solutions has signed an MoU with Yes Bank for a strategic tie-up to co-finance projects in the solar energy sector in India...

Tags: Amplus Energy Solutions, MoU, Solar energy sector, Yes Bank, Funding green energy projects, Sanjeev Aggarwal

Thirty-four power projects in distress

January 2018

As per data from the Power Ministry, almost one third of the distressed power plants are unable to repay loans totalling crores of rupees are in Chha...

Tags: Power Ministry, Distressed power plants, Power sector, GNPA, PPA, Thermal power projects, RK Powergen, IDFC Bank, MoU, Chhattisgarh Government, SHAKTI, Coal Ministry