A policy on “Signing of Fuel Supply Agreements (FSA) with Letter of Assurance (LoA) holders of Thermal Power Plants (TPPs) – Fading Away of the existing LoA-FSA Regime and Introduction of a New More Transparent Coal Allocation Policy for Power Sector, 2017 – SHAKTI (Scheme for Harnessing the and Allocating Koyala (Coal) Transparently in India)” has been issued on 22.05.2017. ...
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Coal Imports to India Reduced
Coal imports have fallen from 217.78 Mte in 2014-15 to 203.95 Mte in 2015-16 and further to 190.95 Mte. in 2016-17. The trend of fall in import of coal has continued in 2017-18. This was stated by Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy and Mines in a written reply to a question ...
Read More »Regional Connectivity Scheme under UDAN
The Government of India has awarded 128 routes connecting 43 unserved and under-served airports to 5 selected airlines for commencing operations under Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) – UDAN in the 1st round of bidding. RCS flights from six RCS airports – Shimla, Nanded, Kandla, Porbandar Gwalior& Bhatinda – have already commenced. The 2nd round of bidding under RCS-UDAN is likely ...
Read More »ISRO website published MOM Atlas
Indi’s prestigious but low cost Mars Orbiter Mission has successfully completed 1000 days in its orbit on June 19, 2017, surviving well beyond its designed mission life of six months. All Scientific payloads continue to provide valuable data of Mars surface and its atmosphere. Mars Colour Camera on-board MOM has acquired more than 700 images of Martian surface. MOM atlas ...
Read More »BARC undertakes Food Irradiation Facilities
India’s premier atomic research institution Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is also engaged in R&D work on the technology of preservation and hygienisation of food and agri-products by radiation. BARC has set up two technology demonstration units, one commissioned in the year 2000 for high dose irradiation at Vashi, Navi Mumbai, and another in 2002, for low dose irradiation, KRUSHAK ...
Read More »Building skills, renewing vision: A small roadmap to development
“In China, probably 10-13% people are engaged in agriculture and only about 4% in US. We must bring it down to 25-30% in India to make this an efficient process. If that has to happen, we have to go down to rural India and develop skills and they need not migrate to the cities. We can automate various phases of ...
Read More »How to make Odisha a manufacturing hub of smaller thing
The perception towards the cost and quality has undergone a sea change. In a globalized world, quality is the key factor which sells the items. Because of very stiff competition across the world, good quality along with the competitive pricing keeps the products sale-able. With the economic condition of the people improving all over the world, cheap items with low ...
Read More »Is Odisha caught up in a ‘Rotten Potato’ syndrome?
One particular pair of shoes does not fit all.Hence, the Chinese created new shoes for themselves. With a new approach and attitude towards discipline, social etiquettes, health and hygiene etc. China created new priorities and economic theories and defined them to fit into their ground realities. Rest, as they say, has become history!Chinese housewife preferred throwing out all the ‘rotten ...
Read More »MSME – “Miles to Go”
Internationally the Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) plays a vital role for the growth & development of the economy & treated as an indicator for inclusive growth & equitable development. The Indian economy is expected to grow over eight percent per annum until 2020. If at all this figure is achieved then it will be the third largest economy ...
Read More »ODISHA: THE GATE WAY OF EASTERN INDIA
Odisha is expected to be the hub of downstream and ancillary industries in Chemical & Petrochemical sectors in the next five years. Leading organizations & Research institutions like CIPCT, IIT & ODCL can lead the movement from the front. The State must take the initiative to formulate a policy for plastic processing industry. Internationally India has become an important actor ...
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