UPA government
The government is determined to revive SEZs and Arun Jaitley today mentioned that some of the effective steps to be taken by the government will make the SEZs the instruments of industrial production, economic growth, export promotion and employment generation. While presenting the Budget 2014-15, the Finance Minister stated that for achieving this, effective steps [...] Continue Reading »
The Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday mentioned in New Delhi that the BJP Government is set to bring out a revised Bill to regulate the real estate sector. Naidu did not give details about the contours of the Bill, however mentioned that the earlier Bill has lapsed [...] Continue Reading »
The country’s poor infrastructure had brought down the growth of the nation, and after the elections, the entire nation was hoping for the Modi government to expedite growth. However amidst the measures which the new government is taking, they have also started blaming the UPA government for the wrong policies. There were road projects which [...] Continue Reading »
S B Nayar, chairman and managing director, IIFCL (India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited) is hopeful about the infrastructure sector with the shift in electoral charge. He mentioned that in the recent past, particularly last year, there hardly has been any investment in this sector by the UPA Government. He also feels that there should be [...] Continue Reading »
In Panaji, the deputy chief minister Francis D’Souza stated that the new central Land Acquisition Act, passed during the earlier UPA government, may either be amended or totally revamped. Most of the states in India are facing difficulties in implementing it. D’Souza, who is also the state revenue minister, had attended the all-India revenue ministers’ conference in [...] Continue Reading »
The irony in India is that we still follow the laws created during the British Raaj. Most of them have become irrelevant with the changing times. Six months back the UPA government had come up with a new central land acquisition law. Now the new BJP led government is has embarked on its overhaul and [...] Continue Reading »
A Kerala Minister said on Monday that the Congress-led UDF government will not extend its cooperation to the proposed private international airport project at Aranmula. The work on the controversial Rs 2,000-crore Aranmula airport project, which is being touted as the first private greenfield airport project in India, has been brought to a standstill by the [...] Continue Reading »
Six years ago, there was a plan to transfer the nearly 20-acre land lying vacant behind Jaya Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre to AIIMS which will help in expanding its bed capacity from 2,000 to 4,100. However this proposal was not a top priority for the UPA government and hence was not implemented. Venkaiah Naidu [...] Continue Reading »
It looks like that the Modi govt. is truly in favour of developing the nation. That’s why they want to continue with UPA government’s well accepted Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and Land Acquisition acts will continue under Modi’s leadership. The new Minister of Rural Development, Gopinath Munde took charge of Rural [...] Continue Reading »
The scrapping of a restraining clause in the airport policy is likely to be proposed by the Civil Aviation Ministry to the Narendra Modi-led new central Government. The clause which the Ministry will request the new Government to scrap underscores the policy of not having an airport within a distance of 150 km of an [...] Continue Reading »
