GOVT PENDING PROJECTS

he said that on one side there is the Kaleshwaram project and on the other side there is the power project-inquiry. He questioned how the Congress government was going to pay the pending bills to the contractors.

With the conclusion of the country's largest electoral activity and the impending lifting of the Model Code of Conduct, various pending government initiatives and projects in Delhi are poised to gain momentum, as per ToI reports. Among the numerous ...

The Indian government's cost overruns in central government projects reached a 12-month high of 20.09% in April, with 1,838 projects with a value of Rs 150 crore and above costing Rs 33.2 lakh crore. The average time for project completion dipped to...

Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) has filed a plea with Ranchi High Court, seeking Rs 775 crore in pending annuities and interest from the Jharkhand government for the Jharkhand Accelerated Road Development Project. Despite agree...

The Quarterly Project Implementation Status Report (QPISR) for the third quarter of 2023-24 revealed that 448 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, experienced cost overruns of over Rs 5.55 lakh crore. Out of 1,897 projects, 56 w...

Chennai's Integral Coach Factory (ICF), a unit of Indian Railways, is readying the sleeper variant Vande Bharat trains. These trains will be put into service for long-distance overnight journeys soon after the next government takes charge, the offic...

Congress highlights Modi government's environmental failures, pledges reversal in June. Ramesh criticizes weakening of laws, impact on forests, and favoritism towards corporations. INDIA bloc promises to restore environmental protections.

The scheme that allows property buyers, who have either not paid or paid insufficient stamp duty on their purchase agreements, to regularize the sale by paying duty with a nominal penalty, has now been extended until June 30.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented a White Paper on February 8, 2024, showcasing the government's accomplishments over the past decade. The document also shed light on several scams that occurred during the UPA government prior to 2...

The Punjab government has finalized the payment of ₹1,426 crore to banks, including IDBI, to acquire the debt-ridden 540-MW GVK Power's Goindwal Sahib thermal power plant. This settlement, equivalent to 43% of principal dues, marks a significant rec...

Interim Budget: Direct tax collections, comprising personal income tax and corporate tax, are expected to surpass Rs 19 lakh crore in the current fiscal year, providing room for people-friendly tax measures. The collections have grown by 20%, and at...

The Greater Noida authority has issued an order in this regard, allowing Hawelia Group, a real estate developer, to take control of a 22-acre partially completed undertaking known as Shree Radha Sky Garden in Greater Noida.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has launched the e-Bhoomi portal to simplify the process of purchasing land for government projects with the consent of landowners. The portal allows farmers and aggregators to offer land for government pro...

The meeting was attended by Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Railways, Communications and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Power Minister RK Singh, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.

Nine key infrastructure projects worth Rs 41,500 crore-three involving national highways, two from the ministry of railways and one project each was from the ministry of power, ministry of coal, ministry of petroleum & natural gas and ministry of he...

The Delhi government has approved repair and redevelopment projects worth Rs 12 crore in the national capital. The projects include repair and redevelopment of the Andrews Ganj and Nehru Place flyovers at a cost of Rs 2.10 crore and culverts at six ...

Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said the Centre is giving GST compensation to states for five years. He said even during Covid times when no GST was collected, the Government of In...

"There are 415 projects where 95 per cent of work is complete and are termed as delayed projects. When our government came in 2014, there were projects worth Rs 3.85 lakh projects which were shut for various reasons," he told the house during Questi...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked government departments to prepare a list of infrastructure projects that have been delayed due to decisions of courts. He also asked for the departments to account for losses that they incurred to the exchequer...