Union Budget 2021: The FY22 capital allocation for MoRTH at `1,08,230 crore is the highest-ever for the ministry — in FY21, this stood at `81,975 crore, and in FY20, at `68,373 crore (actual).
“Currently, the Jajpur plant has 1.1 mtpa capacity. We will start working on the expansion sometime this year to increase the capacity to two mtpa in three years,” JSL’s managing director Abhyuday Jindal said.
In case, the lessee fails to maintain the minimum dispatch criteria for three consecutive quarters, “the state government may terminate such lease after giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard.”
Under the fifth round of TOT, NHAI is offering a 20-year lease period for two bundles with a total length of 159.5 km. The last date for submission of the bids for both the bundles was January 18.
A senior NHAI official said total highway project awards in the current fiscal could be in the range of 4,800-5,200 km, higher than the 4,500-km orignal target the authority had set for itself for the current fiscal.
“Let the comments come,” labour secretary Apurva Chandra said when asked whether the government will pay heed to suggestions that some activity under the manufacturing sector should also be given flexibility to work from
Sources said the union labour ministry has decided to appoint legal advisors soon, mandating them to examine whether the state laws are in sync with the central codes. If the harmony is found to be lacking, then states will b
Sources said the Cabinet also gave the go-ahead for reallocation of several non-producing blocks of the state-run companies, a move that could also enthuse the private players as many of these blocks have abundant proven reso
Anything less than the cut-off mark, which is yet to be decided, on these parameters will mean the bidding process to be out of bounds for the aspiring investor.
The saving grace for the new chairperson, currently the company’s director-commercial, however, is the sharp rise in steel prices and its possibility of holding at the elevated level on the back of higher demand and iron or
Gadkari has been vocal against the steel firms for raising prices by 55% in the last six months. The minister had also written to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to arrest the trend.
On the construction front, the authority’s target for the current fiscal is 4,500 km compared with a record of 3,979 km construction in the last fiscal.
This fiscal, we (the SPV) need to borrow a little less than Rs 10,000 crore, but we already have got offers for Rs 29,000 crore from banks and financial institutions. It shows the success of the SPV model. We will see who off
A second hike during the month, on the back of buoyant domestic demand, was largely anticipated since the domestic HRC prices, even after the first hike in December, were at a 6% discount to import parity prices from China. A
In 2018-19, ESIC spent Rs 8,721 crore on extending medical benefits, Rs 1,171 crore on cash benefit payments and Rs 1,156 crore was administrative expenses.
Icra’s Jayanta Roy said that HRC prices have strengthened in the international market by nearly 18% in the last two months leading to a significant rise in the Indian steel prices.
Even after the price hike, domestic steel would be cheaper by around 4-5% compared with the landed cost of imports from Korea, a country with which India has free trade agreement (FTA) pact, providing domestic firms scope to
The big jump shows the high efficacy of the popular scheme to avert a rural distress in the pandemic period that saw tens of thousands of migrant workers returning to their rural homes from cities.
The demand for work under the rural employment scheme (MGNREGS) jumped in May as the lockdown was eased, peaked in June, but continued to remain at elevated levels through October, according to official data
Moreover, in contrast with earlier months, when new women subscribers to the EPFO were typically from the 22-25 years age bracket, in September more than one lakh or 38% of the new women subscribers were over 35 years of age.
The company is primarily evaluating the option of a large green-field facility in eastern India, but may also opt for further expansion through the inorganic route.
While Code itself caps the work time in a week at 48 hours, the draft rules have stated that, “The period of work of a worker shall be so arranged that inclusive of his intervals for rest, shall not spread over for more tha