The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $177 million loan agreement to upgrade 450 km of state highways and major district roads in Maharashtra. Under the Maharashtra state road improvement project, two major district roads and 11 state highways, with combined length of 450 km will be upgraded to two-lane standard across seven districts.

The Punjab government is moving to provide 100 per cent potable piped water connections to all rural households by 2022.

Industrial Entrepreneurs Memorandum (IEM) was filed with Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion on 24/02/2020 Synthetic Diamond Related Activities.

The state government has released Rs 1,962 crore for dam related works and rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced families. Of the total sum released, over Rs. 1,252 crore would be utilised on the Polavaram main dam and related works.

Indian apparel exporters are gearing up to start producing personal protective equipment (PPE) kits to help fight the pandemic and also make India a hub for sourcing PPE kits.

Construction of the controversial new parliament building at a cost of Rs. 922 crore has been cleared by the Environment Ministry’s Expert Appraisal Committee, with the usual caveats on minimal tree cutting, environmental responsibility and so on, even as a Special Leave Petition on the issue is pending before the Supreme Court.

With the economy battered by the Covid pandemic, the government has firmed up road map for capital investments of Rs. 111 lakh crore in infrastructure over six years, where the Centre (39 per cent) and the states (40 per cent) are expected to have almost equal share, with the rest going to the private sector.

Invest India, which is an investment facilitation joint venture between the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and India Inc, has shortlisted around 1000 global companies to which individual investment pitches will be made.

The UP government is planning to set up a new investment promotion and facilitation agency that will focus on bringing new investments and creating employment. A proposal to this effect had been received from 'Invest India', a body of the Central government, and the new agency s based on this.