The government had also appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as consultant to come up with a road map to upgrade base kitchens and service on trains.
'We are doing away with human interface in metering, billing, and collection.' 'That in itself will bring down losses by 50 to 60 per cent.'
The kerosene subsidy is expected to decline by 40 per cent from Rs 7,595 crore in 2016-17 to Rs 4,500 crore this financial year.
Around 30-50 million passengers in the reserved category have switched over to digital payments.
Discoms will not only be penalised for undue outages, they will not be able to bill you for losses.
The government had last year excluded those with an annual income of more than Rs 10 lakh from LPG subsidy
Currently, 23 power units with a cumulative capacity of 30,000 MW have super critical coal stock situation A lack of synchronised approach between the concerned ministries and power plants, has led to this crisis, says Shreya Jai.
Piyush Goyal has begun his term as railway minister with characteristic energy, but not all his new initiatives are being praised
Indian Railways under Piyush Goyal has chalked out a new plan for station redevelopment. Railway stations in 15 cities may soon offer residential apartments.
Contract finally given for Rs 2,400-cr project, with GIFT City-like features
Indian companies place orders worth $600 million for US crude, which is likely to increase by nearly $2 billion in the near future.
The Railway Board has decided to wind up the ambitious Rs 5,000-crore One ICT plan and the transformation cell
The company had assets in countries like Yemen, Peru, Oman, Myanmar, Columbia, East Timor, Kurdistan and Australia, but it exited almost all these blocks later as part of its portfolio rationalisation
German aid likely for Bengaluru-Chennai bullet train
Import curbs on Chinese panels and modules may help, but low demand and capacity remain problem areas, says Shreya Jai.
Of the Rs 1.10 lakh crore investment required for the project, Japan is providing Rs 88,000 crore as a soft loan at 0.01 per cent interest.
N Sundaresha Subramanian, Karan Choudhury and Shreya Jai report on the sorry condition of homebuyers who invested in Jaypee Infratech and the Amrapali group's Noida-based projects.
Food to be cooked in base kitchens instead of trains; private players to be involved
Corporates understand that the PMO drives all key decisions in this government.
Global crude oil prices have slumped by 49 per cent during the same period
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