Nearly 2,000 projects are likely to be completed in Jammu & Kashmir by March 2021. While 1,000 projects will be completed in this financial year, the rest will be done in the next financial year.

The government has targeted doubling of the country’s annual milk processing capacity to 106 million tonnes from the existing 53 million tonnes (or from 140 million litres a day to 300 million) in five years.

Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has floated a tender to procure 1,000 electric cars with a driving range of over 180 km on a pan-India basis.

The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) mission aims to provide housing for all in urban areas by 2022. Over 32.07 lakh houses have been constructed and delivered so far under PMAY-U out of the total sanctioned 1.03 crore houses. A total 1,03,22,560 houses have been sanctioned under the scheme.

The West Bengal government has announced the setting up of 100 new MSME parks across the state in the next three years to generate employment, and proposed free electricity to those with a quarterly consumption of up to 75 units, in its budget for 2020-21

India’s plans to set up common infrastructure for hardware companies, such as design and fabrication facilities, will help more startups and product firms build and take products faster to market.

The Union Environment Ministry’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) has agreed to a 30-year environmental clearance extension for stateowned Coal India Ltd’s Dipka opencast coal mine in Chhattisgarh’s Korba, even as residents of the area have called for its closure citing environmental concerns.

Southern Railway has been granted Rs. 3,340 crore as budgetary allocation for 2020-2021. This includes Rs. 1,238 crore for doubling, Rs 175 crore towards gauge conversion, Rs 37 crore for upgradation of traffic systems and Rs. 198 crore for passenger amenities.

Rajasthan has laid out a Rs. 2,000-crore plan to reboot the power distribution network and enhance the capacity of the existing infrastructure to make day power a reality for farmers.