Thiruvananthapuram: Electricity Minister Aryadan Mohammed on Monday announced a slew of projects to be implemented during Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's 100-day programme, focussing on improving efficiency of the Kerala State Electricity Board.

Addressing a meet-the-press programme organised by the Thiruvananthapuram Press Club, Mr.

After the power ministry, the steel ministry has come down heavily on Coal India Limited (CIL) for continuing with its e-auctioning system, arguing that the state-run mining behemoth had no reason to auction 10 per cent of its production as it is unable to meet the requirements of various sectors.

It has pulled up the coal ministry for allowing 77 Million Tonne of coal to remain idle at CIL

New Delhi Concerned over delays in execution of projects due to inter-ministerial differences, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a high-level meeting to resolve issues like coal shortages and environment clearances with the respective ministers on July 1.

Power ministry has asked environment ministry to withdraw a recent directive that requires projects to secure forest clearances before beginning other work. The power ministry has said this directive would delay development of thermal and hydropower projects.

New Delhi The Planning Commission has asked infrastructure ministries to try to achieve higher targets in 2011-12 than what they did in each of the first four years of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan.

The panel, which is tasked with the responsibility to fix annual milestones for the infrastructure sector, has set higher targets for power, road, shipping and railway ministries for the current finan

The Central Government is planning to set up five new power transmission lines with private sector participation at an estimated cost of Rs.6,485 crore (worth over $1.40 billion). These planned transmission lines would help power evacuation from the proposed coastal generation projects in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

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New Delhi Power project developers facing coal crisis have pinned their hopes on the meeting called by PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to review the progress of key infrastructure sectors like coal and power.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened a meeting on June 9 to discuss the continued shortage of coal, the poor performance of the power sector and the ways and means to give a big thrust to the infrastructure sector in the remaining part of the XI Plan.

The meeting was earlier scheduled for May 19 but was postponed in view of some council of ministers not being present on that day.

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Kolkata For each wagon of coal that Sajjan Jindal sends to his steel plant in the Bellary belt of Karnataka, it takes four layers of committees at the central government to clear the consignment. But he can consider himself lucky.