The Bombay Stock Exchange says it will train 6.5 million people in the next 10 years to work in the BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) sector, the largest employer in the Indian private sector.
Spread over 940 square km, a new city would be developed at Dholera by the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) as a part of its $90 billion project spread across six states.
Over 5 million alumni from the Indian Institutes of Technology, Mumbai University and Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, plan to raise Rs 21,000 crore to start the world's largest infection testing lab in Mumbai.
Leading up to the International Women's Day on March 8, this is the first of a four-part series that talks about how women can invest to achieve their long-term financial goals.
Rajat Gupta, former director of Goldman Sachs and Mckinsey, has resigned from the board of the Hyderabad-based Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI), a public-private-partnership initiative being run by the GVK group.
To fund infrastructure projects in the public-private-partnership model, the forthcoming Budget could lay down some broad contours on the setting up of debt funds, which will provide investment for the core sector.
Delhi Metro's Airport Express, the country's first corridor to come up on Public-Private- Partnership mode, will roll out for public on Wednesday, turning Delhiites' dream of a hassle-free ride to the Indira Gandhi International Airport into a reality.
The deadline for the commercial launch of the Navi Mumbai airport is set at 2021-end
'If you look at this Budget, except for the Rs 2 increase in petrol and diesel, there is no positive or negative impact from the Budget for the common man.'
India's highways development project, the largest public private partnership programme in the world, is likely to attract a whopping investment of $41 billion, including FDI, from the private sector, Highways Minister Kamal Nath said.
Government contemplates tax incentives for housing projects.
The decision was in contravention of the provisions of the master services agreement signed between the company and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on October 13, 2008, says TCS
The innovation universities are part of the ministry of human resource development's brain gain policy.
The airport express line of Delhi Metro, the country's first public-private-partnership project in the rail sector, would formally open for general public in a month, Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit said.
The Umbrella SSA is a single agreement that entitles the state government to support and facilitate the Centre in land acquisition, law and order and security in every highway project across the state.
According to the agreement between the government and the company, the Rs 7525 crore project is scheduled to be completed by December 4, 2019.
The Union agriculture ministry plans to invite private investment in its project to promote hybrid rice to increase output, particularly in eastern states.
Consortium of 10 banks, led by the State Bank of India, has sanctioned the entire debt requirement of Rs. 11.480 crore for the project.
His outburst has to rank among the most bizarre episodes of two arms of the government fighting in public.
Bids for the proposed Rs 1,290-crore (Rs 12.9 billion) Madhepura electric locomotive factory in Bihar will be opened next week, say railway ministry officials.
The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad has been rated world's number one airport in the category of airports handling 5 to 15 million passengers by the Airport Council International.
The facility, to come up on the public-private-partnership mode, will roll out 120 IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) electric locos of 12,000 horse power every year.
To be set up under the PPP model, the 20 institutes will offer undergraduate, masters and PhD programmes.
Although a detailed blueprint is yet to be created, sources familiar with thedevelopments said companies would initially be roped in to augment the basic rail infrastructure in industrial areas such as mining zones.
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Wednesday described the railway budget as 'disappointing' and said the ministry's attempt to attract private firms to fund the rail projects is like 'chasing a dream'.
'Are all roads in India privatised? Are governments not playing a role in airports or ports? If they (private players) want to set up lines for a specific requirement, I see no reason to object. It will expand the opportunity and passengers will also benefit.'
In what has been billed as 'a unique public-private experiment', an Indian outsourcing company that claims Royal Bank of Scotland and Goldman Sachs as its clients, is to employ inmates at the Cherlapally Central Jail in Hyderabad to help process bank paperwork.
CST Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Howrah, Sealdah, Thiruvanathapuram, Chennai, Bhopal, Madhura Junction, New Jalpaiguri and Kochi are some of the stations that will be modernised.
India has initiated steps to build its first indigenous civilian transport aircraft under a public-private partnership project that will be undertaken in a national mission mode.
The new concessionaire will be appointed by the end of April and the groundwork for the project is expected to begin in October.
The aim to ensure a steady revenue and corporate sponsorship for sports, besides keeping infrastructure in use.
The government on Thursday said it would expeditiously clear pending proposals in the infrastructure sector under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode while making regulations, governing this area, investment friendly.
The home ministry's mega housing project will be implemented through the Public Private Partnership mode as the pace of construction of old projects, being done by Central Public Works Department, has been less than satisfactory.
'Everybody says 5G and communication is important.' 'Everybody says automation, robotics, human computing interfaces -- people and machines working together -- is the future.' 'Everybody agrees that cybersecurity is something that is here to stay.' 'Everybody agrees that synthetic biology is important.' 'Instead of outlining thinking about industries for tomorrow and the future, let the evolutionary pathway be built in a way that it promotes robust, creative, thinking.'
The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) invites Indian citizens to apply for the 2009 Fulbright-Nehru Environmental Leadership Programme (FNELP) Fellowships.
'By 2020 around 34% of India's population will be in the 15-34 age group.' 'More than 70% of them live in rural areas.' 'Their energy and enthusiasm need to be tapped in order to meet their aspirations and transform agriculture and the rural economy,' says P K Joshi.
Partners for these JVs have been shortlisted among global contenders, he said, adding that they would be among world leaders in the respective product.
'You peel one layer, then another layer, then another, but in the end, you will see that there is no onion inside.' 'This package has been packaged well, but there is nothing much inside the package!'
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The NPAs of banks stood at over Rs 3 lakh crore as on December 2014.
The department had earlier also examined the option of a direct equity sale but opted for a PPP model because it offered revenue sharing opportunities, fertiliser secretary Atul Chaturvedi said. Chaturvedi explained that whereas the outright sale of equity will mean the government will have to wait for the plants to make profits to get a share of revenue, the PPP mode will help it do so in the first year.
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