MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metro scheme for the city got a boost with the MMRDA awarding the construction of the 32-km long Metro II corridor from Charkop to Mankhurd via Bandra to a consortium headed by Reliance Infrastructure Ltd.

District Collector M. Vallalar inspecting NREGS work-site at N. Panchampatti Panchayat of Athoor Block for improving Pallakulam East path.

- Rs 6.8cr to develop Adityapur infrastructure, prevent waterlogging
ANKUSH SINGH
On revamp route

Jamshedpur, July 29: The Adityapur Industrial Area Development Authority (Aiada) has prepared a Rs 6.8-crore project for improving basic facilities in its command area.

MUKESH RANJAN
`Except for drinking water and rural housing schemes, other four components of the flagship programmes under Bharat Nirman have substantially gone off the mark'

Chandigarh: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has sanctioned Rs 127 crore and Rs 245 crore for Punjab and Haryana, respectively, for improving rural infrastructure under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF).

Since the inception of RIDF, Nabard has sanctioned more than 40,000 projects with a loan component of Rs 5,806 crore to the West Bengal Government.

Nagesh Prabhu

BANGALORE: Redesigning, protests, delay in land acquisition, poor response from contractors, and re-tendering have delayed work on 17 infrastructure projects sanctioned for Bangalore and Mysore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

May 19, 2009. Parliament

In February 2006, when the disparate pieces of executive orders, press notes, government regulations that formed the basis of the SEZ framework from April 2000 were all consolidated and given effect as a cogent piece of legislation called the SEZ Act, 2005, there was great hope.

In February 2006, when the disparate pieces of executive orders, press notes, government regulations that formed the basis of the SEZ framework from April 2000 were all consolidated and given effect as a cogent piece of legislation called the SEZ Act, 2005, there was great hope.