Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling laid the foundation stone of a new 575-bedded multi specialty STNM Hospital at Suchakgang (Sichey) in the city outskirts here recently.

The Hospital will be built at an estimated cost of Rs 400 crores with a plinth area of 6 lakh square feet, housing 18 departments and will be completed by March 2013.

India will become the world's second largest steel producer by 2012, more than doubling its capacity of 57 million tonnes as part of push being given to assist overall infrastructure development, Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh has said.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that India may clock a growth in the upper range of most projections including the 7.75 per cent growth projection given by the Economic Survey last year. Mukherjee sounded optimistic that India would cross the 7.2 per cent growth rate predicted by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) recently.

In a move that also rehabilitates former Reserve Bank of India deputy governor and infrastructure expert Rakesh Mohan, the government today set up a National Transport Development Policy Committee to chalk out a multi-modal strategy to meet the country

Facing acute shortage of office space, the Delhi Government has asked the Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation (DSIDC) to prepare a

BHAWANIPATNA: Kalahandi continues to be backward and underdeveloped with human development index touching nadir. To pave the way for speedy development and free Kalahandi from the vicious cycle of regional imbalance, there is a need to go for macro and micro-level planning.

After the Educational Development Index (EDI) showed Delhi had slipped from its fourth rank to the eighth place in elementary education, the state is considering taking up the matter with the Ministry of Human Resource Development and National University of Educational Planning and Administration, officials said.

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Ahmedabad: Aslali gram panchayat has set an example for other panchayats to follow. This panchayat, situated on the city outskirts, has gone in for infrastructure development without getting any grant from the government.

Mumbai This year

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The government on Thursday approved the annual plan for Mumbai and the suburbs.

Municipal Commissioner and Collectors of both districts advised to avoid duplication of work, Finance Minister Sunil Tatkare said. Highlights:

TOTAL OUTLAY
Rs 49.80 crore, Mumbai city